The Fax Refuses to Die
Consider what a fax machine actually is: a little device with a sheet feeder, a terrible scanning element, and an ancient modem. Most faxes run at 14,400bps. That is just over 1KB per second -- and people are still using faxes to send 52 poorly scanned pages of some contract to one another. Over analog phone lines. Sometimes while paying long-distance charges! The mind boggles. If something as appallingly stupid as the fax machine can live on, it makes you wonder how we make progress at all. It just goes to show you: Bad technology generally is not the problem; it is the people who persist in using that technology rather than embracing far superior alternatives.
http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-center/why-the-fax-machine-refuses-die-171308
Email Charter
1. Respect Recipients' Time2. Short or Slow is not Rude
3. Celebrate Clarity
4. Quash Open-Ended Questions
5. Slash Surplus CC's
6. Tighten the Thread
7. Attack Attachments
8. Give these Gifts: EOM NNTR
9. Cut Contentless Responses
10. Disconnect! http://emailcharter.org/
Do not call me
Less obsolete but more annoying than a handwritten letter, the phone call is fading as a mode of communication even if the nostalgic will be singing its praises for awhile. We reached a breaking point in 2008 when text messaging topped mobile phone calling in usage, and we have been living in a world dominated by text-based communication ever since.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/13/alexia-phone-home/
you@fb.me
Facebook may be about to unveil its Project Titan email client. Rumored to have been in the works since February, this "full-fledged" webmail service with @facebook.com personal addresses is reportedly referred to as a "Gmail killer" internally.
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