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Mark Etinger
Running an office without a photocopy machine feels like a great way to set yourself back a few decades without even trying. To be able to readily and easily reproduce documents is one of the great achievement of modern society. It is what has driven the growth of the middle class in the middle of the twentieth century and it is what has allowed the entire world to grow and learn to read and tap into leisure as a society. These are not small feats and no matter how far the internet may spread and who it affects it probably never would have gotten off the ground without the printing press and subsequent innovations in copy machine technology. Xerox copy machines have been helping propel business into the future for more than a century, that is nothing to scoff at. In that time the world has changed at a rate more accelerated than ever before in history. This is no coincidence. Over these past hundred or so years we have seen the invention of fax machines and the general globalization of business. These things go hand in hand. As the ability to communicate and reproduce information has spread using means such as(but not limited to) telephones, email, Xerox copy machines, etc. the ability for businesses to grow and reach new areas has become easier and easier. The easy dissemination of information and documents has been the great human advancement in the last several decades. It is in some ways the reason we are swimming in bureaucracies and high concept global dealings that are entirely theoretical and have little basis in the functional world. It is through these advancements that credit has become both a blessing and a curse. It is with the easy use of a copier machine that a deed to a home can be sent to banks and homeowners alike and it can become legally binding and publicly knowable. These are important advances and they were made possible by the folks at Xerox. As we become more and more web based it can become easy to discount the advances of the copy machine. It might even become easy to disregard paper copies of documents all together. This would be a mistake of course. There is no more concrete way to prove that an agreement has been reached or a contract has been signed than with a physical copy of the thing. There is nothing quite like a hard confirmation of fact. That is the thing a copier machine provides.
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