Author: Rocky Swift

Japan’s government has finally eliminated the use of floppy disks. The country has removed the technology from all its systems, two decades since their heyday, reaching a long-awaited milestone in a campaign to modernize the bureaucracy. By the middle of last month, the Digital Agency had scrapped all 1,034 regulations governing their use, except for one environmental stricture related to vehicle recycling. Japan’s digitization effort has run into numerous snags, however, despite its hi-tech image. A contact-tracing app flopped during the pandemic, and adoption of the government’s My Number digital identification card has been slower than expected. In 2020 Japan’s…