Sunday, July 6, 2008

5 technologies it’s hard to believe are almost obsolete



Voice Mail

Why sit there and try to craft the perfect monologue when a text message works just as well. And with the advent of so many new portable communication devices, who isn’t available all the time anyway? And with the graying around the temples of voice mail, it’s shocking to think that not long ago we were all using tape-driven answering machines.


Fax

The PDF, scanner and ability to send email attachments have all worked in concert to render the good old facsimile machine obsolete. For a while there, it was clinging to life due to the off chance that you would need to “sign something and fax it back”, but digital signatures and Tablet PCs have made even those document that require an authentic John Hancock deliverable online.


Messenger Services

Again, the need to get documents across town is handle


Xerox Copier

Admit it; you use the copier much less than just a couple of years ago. The digital distribution of documents (play say that three times fast) has made


DVD

We realize that this is not a business technology staple per se, but have you walked into a Blockbuster store lately? It’s like a funeral home in there. Although everything is where it should be, and staff still robotically greets you when you stride through the door, but there’s just something melancholy about the whole experience that feels like Netflix and even their own Blockbuster.com service have really changed the rules of the game. In this fast moving world, today’s technology is tomorrow’s drink coaster.


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