Sep 25th, 2009

Fax Machines Are Ridiculous Inventions

Imagine having a printer that automatically printed out every piece of SPAM you received. That was the norm at the company where I started my career. Add to it that fax machines were practically one-way communication devices, jamming and screeching and failing whenever one tried to send something, and you have an unbelievably stupid package. Environmentally, it's a nightmare, and the fact that the technology remains so poor and undeveloped--and that it's still in use years later, is baffling. It feels like we made a bad and strange technology mistake, but only a few caught on. That's all.