(c) Bild habe ich selbst erstellt mit Midjourney AI, Corel Draw 2021, Corel Painter 2023
PAPER, STONE, (OP)SCISSORS
This morning I saw the repeat of "Frontal", a news magazine on ZDF. There, doctors' protests were reported. In my opinion, they were right to do so. Doctors and nurses are a professional group that is "essential for our survival" and should not be burned like rotten wood. At least, that's how a 40-year-old emergency medicine physician felt when he was there to speak. 3 hours. 3 hours a day are spent by physicians just making paper notes. The representative of the Marburger Bund said that a reduction by only half of this time would already have an enormous potential. 3 hours! This is a disaster, but unfortunately typical for our digital Pleistocene. I get along with it, annoy me only daily, with the physicians/inside it is 25 (!) % (according to frontal of 26.10.2022; first report), which play because of the work compression with the thought to change the occupation. And who will follow? Who wants to spend 3 hours scribbling on stone tablets when an artificial intelligence could do it in passing, but as was the case with the Internet, which the old men with white hair and a penchant for "we've always done it that way" didn't take seriously, those who cling to this primitive time will be swept out of the market. After that, the "adaptable" will survive. I hope very much that this will not cost human lives.
THE COMEBACK OF THE EPISTOLARY NOVEL
I also experience this on a small scale every day. "Please let us know your address, we could not deliver a letter". "Please respond by letter only". "You must submit this in writing". Yesterday from VGH, a few weeks ago from Debeka today from AXA and constantly from all authorities. Germany is stuck - as I said - in the digital Pleistocene.
A friend of mine is a notary. Sure, he MUST work with paper, because the BGB prescribes it, among other things, in § 125 BGB, which states the legal consequence and which is, so to speak, the springboard for regulations such as § 311b BGB. But here, too, the e-file is intended to give momentum to these age-old provisions. But how does it look in reality? A friend of ours is a judge at a local court. She sees little momentum here. The large consulting firms (Deloitte and Co.), large law firms and similarly "well-heeled" people may see things differently. I still have enough contact with lawyers who have their feet on the ground, and they only see progress here with the span of Pumuckl's steps.
We are light years away from "modern."
Germany was ranked 13th in Europe in the DESI ranking (digitization "index"). Behind Latvia.
Why this flood of paper? If you want to, like my 90-year-old dad, you can opt it in. But by default, it should be "opted out.
Now you can say: We get so many mails, so important mails get lost quickly. That's right. Then you have to think a little bit and set up reasonable filters. Otherwise I could ask the post office to knock my letters for me into stone tablets and/or menhirs. Otherwise, important letters would get lost in the paper advertising.
Security? Is mail really safer? Well, I can rather steal the handicraft magazines from my neighbor's mailbox with glue and fishing rod at night (which I can't do anything with, because I have 2 left hands and 5 thumbs on each hand) than I can break into his digital mailbox protected by 2 factor authentication.
Cool is then also always the reaction when you refer people nicely to the digital way .
"Our head office is working on it, as long as it remains with letter".
But then that comes by mail.
At the bottom, it usually says "Please do not print out"....