Die Fax Die

The other day I got an email returned with a reply. Except it was a handwritten reply and the answerer had printed off my email, written his answer on it and faxed it back. It’s folks like that who are ensuring that fax machines continue to clog our lives – pushing up usage 40% in the last year alone.

When will the fax machines die off joining the Gestentner, mother of all ‘zines, itself now hiding its own toxic legacy.

The Tree

The Tree of Knowledge, that is.

Why can’t we have the following components of the internet put together today:

  • open source collaboration
  • creating a central web application which
  • uses RSS aggregation
  • to search by keyword
  • to report on everything available on the internet
  • and file it in publicly available space
  • classified according to an taxonomy of all understanding cascading from the general to specific in every field.

Add open source blogging tools available free with RSS feeds and all writers can pour what is known into the system by writing on their own pages. An automated global wiki.   The indexed internet, the free digital usable useful library.