[gillesjacobs]

In this case, the slow digitisation had a good side-effect of allowing a open, decentralized encrypted messaging protocol to be maturely adopted.

Not much consolance for the German people, who still have to deal with a lot of paper administration but a happy accident nonetheless.

[ehvatum]

From my experiences with DMG Mori and Siemens employees servicing my equipment and managed by a 100% electronic appointment booking and part ordering systems, German society is wholly and irrevocably doomed by the move away from physical paperwork.

All German productivity will end and even German language itself will be replaced by grunts and shrugs.

In the end, I got rid of my DMG Mori machine with its Siemens control and replaced it with a Taiwanese machine that functions reliably.