I was just listening to that episode this morning. They said that pencil sales had five years of consecutive decline — but sales of pens were actually rising.

That's coming off of a huge upswing in 2012, when pencil sales increased by 6.8%.

Definitely not the lowest in a century, in fact, the industry is much higher than it was fifty years ago simply due to population growth, even though per capita use may be down.

Cant trust anyone on HN these days:-)

My bad