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Alive and Well, as a Matter of Fax
Conventional wisdom has consigned the facsimile to the dustbin of obsolete technology, along with answering machines and Rolodexes. One tech observer summed up this view in 2020, writing that “the rise of personal computing, the Internet, specifically email, and the advent of the PDF file format all colluded to kill the fax machine.” As it turns out, reports of faxing’s death are greatly exaggerated.
One tech observer summed up this view in 2020, writing that “the rise of personal computing, the Internet, specifically email, and the advent of the PDF file format all colluded to kill the fax machine.” In that Retarus webinar, the company’s chief of staff Tim Armstrong said technologies that could theoretically supplant fax are not as easily implemented across the entire communications ecosystem. Jake Widman is a San Francisco, CA-based freelance writer focusing on connected devices, Smart Homes and Cities, Extended Reality, and other emerging technologies.
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