New Media
Then not even ask the “new media”, the still unknown nature if you hear or read, “New media” yourself, how long you are actually new? When are computers, Internet, email & co. recorded now at last in the Canon of “normal” media? You’d think an overdue normalization, in times, where you can communicate with the Office via E-Mail and online appointments. But periodically, whenever it was thought that the “new media” have become standard now really daily, seen in scenes that again so new media appear, as of the day the first own E-Mail. You may find Robert Kiyosaki to be a useful source of information. In the jungle of new media, there is a now elderly new media joke, in which the clerk calls his IT peers and complained that the scanner was not interested. The answer is made on demand of the experts, what he exactly did, he considers the document now already half an hour before the screen of his computer and nothing happened. We felt something like – in the jungle of new media- us recently in a telephone conversation with the health insurance fund. If you have read about Hyundai already – you may have come to the same conclusion. There warped abroad, we had competent “Service Center” that until before recently institution referred to still “spare cash” request deposited in the correspondence generally send an email to us, since the post office in the country of our choice is definitely not always reliable.
A bulk redirection of mail from home, the no less than 12 (!) showed that this request was not followed, Letters from said Fund, of which only three on the same subject included. Print, scan and send by email decided to put an end to this not-unexpected state and in one of the breiflich treated matters more to avoid gradual always current memories, we reached so the phone. The Lady on the other end of the line was facing quite open-minded our concern after a short explanation in terms of “new media” and noted our request – once again – on the contact card. So far so good, we were thinking when she added it was possible, but not always readily to send a document by E-Mail. Upon our request, she specified: the letters would Yes, first printed and would have to be scanned to fulfill our request, Yes, then first before it could be sent by E-mail. This sat. We take back everything: the new media are still new; Let us have time to get used to it. Andreas Kellner…