{"id":6877,"date":"2022-09-01T08:38:44","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T06:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/01\/why-japans-war-on-disks-could-prove-to-be-another-flop\/"},"modified":"2022-09-01T08:38:44","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T06:38:44","slug":"why-japans-war-on-disks-could-prove-to-be-another-flop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/01\/why-japans-war-on-disks-could-prove-to-be-another-flop\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Japan\u2019s war on disks could prove to be another flop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Digital minister Taro Kono wants to follow up his bid to phase out faxes by getting rid of floppy disks \u2013 but he faces opposition from bureaucrats<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s digital minister has declared war on floppy disks, decades after the technology became largely obsolete, but could encounter opposition from analogue devotees inside the country\u2019s vast bureaucracy.<\/p>\n<p>Taro Kono said he would expand his quest to rid the bureaucracy of outdated tools by phasing out disks and moving administrative procedures online.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/01\/japan-digital-minister-declares-war-on-floppy-discs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/68de301ee252e1be4b802cede0be6592ba1b7542\/0_179_7360_4414\/master\/7360.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=bccc407ea6978da9089bc327e0e9f304\" title=\"Why Japan\u2019s war on disks could prove to be another flop\" \/>Digital minister Taro Kono wants to follow up his bid to phase out faxes by getting rid of floppy disks \u2013 but he faces opposition from bureaucrats<br \/>\nJapan\u2019s digital minister has declared war on floppy disks, decades after the technology became largely obsolete, but could encounter opposition from analogue devotees inside the country\u2019s vast bureaucracy.<br \/>\nTaro Kono said he would expand his quest to rid the bureaucracy of outdated tools by phasing out disks and moving administrative procedures online. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital minister Taro Kono wants to follow up his bid to phase out faxes by getting rid of floppy disks \u2013 but he faces opposition from bureaucrats Japan\u2019s digital minister has declared war on floppy disks, decades after the technology became largely obsolete, but could encounter opposition from analogue devotees inside the country\u2019s vast bureaucracy. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/01\/why-japans-war-on-disks-could-prove-to-be-another-flop\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why Japan\u2019s war on disks could prove to be another flop<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6877"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}