Japan’s Digital Minister Declares ‘War’ on Humble Floppy Disk in New Digital Push
The Japan Times | August 31, 2022 | BloombergJapan’s digital minister, who’s vowed to rid the bureaucracy of outdated tools from the hanko stamp to the fax machine, has now declared “war” on a technology many haven’t seen for decades — the floppy disk.
The hand-sized, square-shaped data storage item, along with similar devices including the CD or even lesser-known mini disk, are still required for some 1,900 government procedures and must go, digital minister Taro Kono wrote in a Twitter post Wednesday.
“We will be reviewing these practices swiftly,” Kono said in a news conference Tuesday, adding that Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has offered his full support. “Where does one even buy a floppy disk these days?”
A working group of the government’s Digital Extraordinary Administrative Advisory Committee is considering abolishing such designations to promote online application filing.
The working group has found about 1,900 clauses of laws, government, ministerial and other ordinances stipulating that specific storage devices, such as floppy and magneto-optical disks, be used to make administrative applications and keep data.
Would it be petty of me to ask if he did so without warning on a Sunday morning?
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It’s a laugh seeing Eliz. Warren at the presidential debates!
A floppy disc and Biden walk into a bar…
Life went downhill when they invented the cordless phone.
“Thumb drives for everyone … Now, are you right- or left-handed?”
..be sure to play musical chairs with the kids and seat yourself on the last chair then stop the record..good times..”
I Wonder most of the time if Playing Biden’s words backwards makes more sense!
I buried Hunter.
Biden: “Poll is dead.”