Who doesn’t use fax machines?

There are many people who do not use fax machines, and I myself would have, in times past, classed myself as one of these people.

Strangely enough, the people who don’t use fax machines are very much the same types of people who by my own definition would. You’ll find the very same types of secretaries, PAs and managers opposed to these clunky and archaic devices as you will those who think it’s is God’s gift to mankind.

It is a problem of generations and a condition of what time in history you may have been born in. In the middle of the 1990s, the Internet became a widespread phenomena in homes and businesses across the world. When this happened, anyone with an Internet connection and an imaging device could send a document anywhere in the world for almost no cost, at a ridiculously high speed and at a quality that would far surpasses the most expensive fax machine available on the face of the planet.

And so there are a group of people in business who think that the fax machine could be consigned to the history books. Yes, in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, the teleprinters and fax machines of the time were amazing devices, capable of sending a message across the world at high speed when a letter would take weeks, if not months. And even into the 80s, where faxes were still useful for sending signed documentation at high-speed, they could still seem to be something of a miracle as opposed to waiting for paperwork to arrive.

The question is when will businesses and the population as a whole give up on the beloved and embattled fax machine? It kind of bridges two worlds: the world of e-mail and instant messaging, and the world of paper-based postal services, binding them together with an easy interface.

And despite the people who don’t like it, until someone figures out how to do this in a computer to the same standard, fax machines will still be here.

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