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[-] IvanOverdrive@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Fax machines are definitely being phased out.

Floppy disks? How old is this meme? In the nearly twenty years I've been in Japan, I've never even seen a floppy disk.

Paper filing is an option if you want it.

And as for cash, electronic payments have really taken off in the last year. I still value my privacy though. So I stick it out in the slow line up.

All in all, there's a kernel of truth to the meme. What the outside sees as a Blade Runner society drenched in neon, the reality is more "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" kinda place.

[-] tiredofsametab@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Fax machines are definitely being phased out.

NTT East, at least as of a little over two years ago, hard requires a fax to set up internet still. It's infuriating.

[-] ManosTheHandsOfFate@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Also in the US the medical industry still does a ton of faxing.

[-] tiredofsametab@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Yep. Having worked in the industry for a long time, including trying to transition to EMR and such, I get this. In Japan, one of the reason fax machines are still important that is not often talked about is that they generally have a bank of pre-programmed numbers. This is seen as a way to reduce the chance of exposing PII to others by accident. This is not wrong, but the same could be implemented for other systems such as email (or the host of EDI that exist). I literally just had a training that said we should not even send a fax ourselves, but have someone observe that we hit the correct pre-programmed button for it.

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