Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!texbell!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.society.futures Subject: Re: Looking faxwards Message-ID: <0E115B2ny2@ficc.uu.net> Date: 13 Jan 90 19:33:15 GMT References: <9Z=962xds13@ficc.uu.net> <1990Jan12.163612.11730@aqdata.uucp> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 17 > > FAX *is* a step backwards. > > Can you FAX a program, or other document that you need in computer > > readable form? Conveniently? Reliably? > That's not a fair question as FAX isn't meant to do that. Can you send > scanned images via email to my ascii terminal? [etc] Sure, FAX does things that Email can't do as easily. But you can uuencode images and send them via Email. You can do the same with sampled sounds, songs, color & 3-d images, and so on. Making this as easy as FAX is a SMOP. Well, a LMOP. But you know what I mean. I'm basically responding here to the implication that Email is dead, and FAX has replaced it. So long as we need to do things other than sending images we need something other than FAX. And if you extend FAX enough to allow those sorts of things it'll just become a new channel for Email. An expensive one. -- _--_|\ Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. . / \ \_.--._/ Xenix Support -- it's not just a job, it's an adventure! v "Have you hugged your wolf today?" `-_-'