Japan has finally pulled the plug on floppy disks and scrapped all use of the legacy tech in government procedures. This comes more than two decades after floppy disks started to decline.
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The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency is still using old floppy disks to run its trains. Moreover, it could take as much as 10 years to upgrade the current 26-year-old system.
The chief technology officer of the United States, Megan J. Smith, is working hard to bring her experience from Silicon Valley into the White House, and finally making some long needed changes.