Taro Kono is Japan’s digital affairs minister. He plans to end the use of disks by the government. This is common: about 1,900 government processes still use disks. The statement was made by Kono on August 30th.

Floppy disks were invented in the 1960s and used for decades to store computer files, much like a pen drive or a folder on a cloud today. It would take more than 20,000 floppy disks to store the information that fits on a device with 32 GB of memory.

In addition to floppy disks, Kono is also against the use of faxes (a machine that sends printed texts or images remotely) and hanko, a traditional Japanese stamp used on official documents. According to the minister, these outdated technologies are not in line with technological advances in Japanese society.

Questions

1) What is a floppy disk?

a) A machine that allows prints to be sent remotely

b) A digital affairs department in the Japanese government

c) An instrument used in the past to store digital files

d) A traditional Japanese stamp

2) If you could exclude one item from your school supply list, what would it be? Why?

Sources: BBC, Fortune, Nikkei, Telegraph and Twitter.

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