<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">thanks, this was a darkly amusing article. i'm teaching a technology-and-society freshman seminar this semester (<a href="http://digitalquandary.org" class="">digitalquandary.org</a>) and in open discussion last week a student asked about how healthcare is often the last major sector to adopt IT innovation. the article is an excellent example of that and i'll pass it along, even though these students were born well after the decline of fax.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">btw - i read jonathan's "Faxed" book last year and it was great and highly informative - definitely a worthwhile addition to my bookshelf of tech history. definitely recommended!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 23, 2021, at 08:27, Jonathan Coopersmith <<a href="mailto:j-coopersmith@tamu.edu" class="">j-coopersmith@tamu.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">At the risk of self-promotion, this might be of interest, if only to note the photo with a computer printout and not faxed sheets - I pointed out the error to the author</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default"></div><div class="gmail_default"> <a href="https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210903-how-covid-19-could-finally-be-the-end-of-the-fax-machine" class="">https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210903-how-covid-19-could-finally-be-the-end-of-the-fax-machine</a></div><div class="gmail_default"> </div><div class="gmail_default"><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" class="">Stay sane and keep wearing a mask (partially for you; more for others),</font></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif" class="">Jonathan</span></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif" class="">Jonathan Coopersmith</span><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" class="">Professor</font></div><div class=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" class="">Department of History</font></div><div class=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" class="">Texas A&M University</font></div><div class=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" class="">College Station, TX 77843-4236</font></div><div class=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" class="">979.739.4708 (cell)</font></div><div class=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" class="">979.862.4314 (fax)</font></div><div class=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" class="">Voting challenges: </font><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)" class=""><a href="https://theeagle.com/opinion/columnists/texas-should-be-the-model-for-secure-voting/article_4c35a332-e42c-11eb-b0d8-534c59b58ebe.html" target="_blank" class="">https://theeagle.com/opinion/columnists/texas-should-be-the-model-for-secure-voting/article_4c35a332-e42c-11eb-b0d8-534c59b58ebe.html</a></span></div></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><font color="#222222" class=""><br class=""></font><div class=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" class="">Preserving space archives: <a href="https://www.toboldlypreserve.space/" target="_blank" class="">https://www.toboldlypreserve.space/</a></font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">International standards battles: <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/geek-life/history/lets-thwart-this-terrible-idea-for-standards-setting__;!!KwNVnqRv!R4dbJx9DOnSkoiNAwXjHq9sp5vMvdGEVtOMlWJUc6AH7iQiRA7bw1VEUYeo6i2St9sgf$" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank" class="">https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/geek-life/history/lets-thwart-this-terrible-idea-for-standards-setting</a></div><div class=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="verdana, sans-serif" class=""><i class="">FAXED. The Rise and Fall of the Fax Machine</i> (Johns Hopkins University Press) </font><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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