Death of an attachment

It occurred to me earlier this week that I was seeing the death of an attachment. I have a life (as all of us do) outside of my employed work and mine often involves writing and author interviews. And, when I get an email request for an interview I used to send a reply with a Word attachment containing instructions and sometimes a set of questions. My process worked well until it didn’t; the document came back and it was a simple matter of copy, pasting and editing to get the info onto the website, along with the video (if it’s a podcast). Simple. But then I had a glitch in the system. One of my authors couldn’t open the attachment. Shock, horror, they used a Mac, without an Office plugin! What to do? This was an author whose work I admired and was keen to help and I didn’t want my system to get in the way of a good story. I had two choices, I could either reinvent the document I sent, or I could use an online form instead. The online form won out. As I was working out what to do I realised that this was bigger than just my little problem, a little detective work was required! According to the latest report from the Radicati Group, 376 billion emails are expected to be sent every single day by the end of 2025. I realised if just 1% of those emails had an attachment that meant almost 4 BILLION files were winging their way around the world on a daily basis. And, that is only if they are sent to a single recipient. You can multiple that figure many time...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - Category: OBGYN Authors: Tags: Technology digital wisdom Source Type: news