Reports of the demise of the fax machine may be premature if research in Chico Harlan's article in The Washington Post last week is to be believed. Fax machines are still in 59 percent of Japanese homes, Harlan found. They are still popular because of a cultural interest in the use of paper and handwriting. Well, we all know -- just by looking around us -- that in many parts of the world the murky fax has gone the way of the typewriter, replaced by Adobe Acrobat PDF files attached to email.
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