It’s become cliché to talk about inventions that can ‘change the world’, but when it comes to transversal technologies – cross-cutting tools with the potential to transform multiple industries – the moniker feels like an understatement, writes Andrew Chakhoyan.
What do you expect from an aging population that still secretly hopes the internet will just go away? Here in Germany, we basically have a Gerontocracy. Until all of the old farts in high places finally move off this planet, the fax machine will be one of the most important technologies in this country.
Not because of good reasons. The younger population is extremely underpaid and a lot of them have shifted their priorities to work less, because of their original dreams becoming too difficult or even outright impossible to follow.
Dealing with the Ausländerbehörde lately was absolutely abysmal. You have two options, paper mail or fax. But faxes arrive in the post office and need to be sorted first so it can take 2-3 days for the fax to arrive at the right person in the same fucking building.
It’s horrendous.
Sound like a nightmare. I thought only Japan were still using fax.
Fax is used a lot by lawyers because you get a paper which says the message has been received. This paper is accepted at court. It provides this much cheaper and faster than the Post office. No electronic mechanism does this. At least nothing widely adopted.
There is this in Europe.