72august » technology http://www.72august.com Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:08:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Fax Machines Are Ridiculous Inventions http://www.72august.com/2009/09/25/fax-machines-are-ridiculous-inventions/ http://www.72august.com/2009/09/25/fax-machines-are-ridiculous-inventions/#comments Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:52:48 +0000 72august http://www.72august.com/?p=99 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.

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