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“While renowned for its consumer electronics giants, robots and some of the world’s fastest broadband networks, the country has also been wedded to floppy disks and other old technologies like fax machines and cash.” Old technologies. You know, like cash. 🎁
Japan Finally Phases Out Floppy Diskswww.nytimes.com One of the world’s most technologically advanced nations has held on to some of the most outmoded devices.
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If it works best, why get rid of it? Why do we always have to be using the latest thing because the market wants us to? Seems like a lot of hassle. Japan was right.
I never had customers angry because the system was down and we couldn't take cash. I never had a customer hand me $20 and had the computer tell me it was only 37 cents even though he put the $20 in his wallet 2 hours ago But cash doesn't give powerful companies more power over us so it's bad