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To: elmatador who wrote (22517)	11/18/2019 3:44:24 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33421

So you think Germany should prioritize creating 'Digital Public Services" to eliminate jobs as promoted by the Digital Subcommittee of the European Commission? That would require a radical change in German culture as Public Services are uniformly dispensed by humans. That would require a huge change in most European cultures. With the help of a German corporate attorney traveling in my train compartment we were finally successful in locating the very obscure webpage where I could add value to my Deutsche Telekom account with a Visa card rather than buying a charge-up card at a newspaper stand, grocery or bank. This sort of Digital Public Service is not favored by Germans and few use it themselves. Did I mention how widely available newspaper stands still are in Germany? Digital publishing? What a hoot. If you don't pay your annual television fee, or file an exemption, a government employee shows up at your door with the intent of personally helping you fill out the correct form. Because you're one of the less than one per cent who didn't file the form in a timely manner they assume, probably rightly, that you're a moron requiring personal assistance from a kindly counselor. Digital Public Services? What is that? they send a robot? Certainly everything to do with the European Union is available online, mostly only online - which is one of the many things the English dislike about the EU. The English want their good old-fashioned paper forms and forming queues. Australia - now there's a digital society where many things can be done online only. This is driven in large part by the low population density where your local Personal Public Services is at least 30 minutes away, at best, rather than two tram stops away.

To: elmatador who wrote (22517)	11/18/2019 4:12:41 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 33421

When we recently stayed at the Hotel Schön on the Rhine in Assmannshausen they had wonderful food and absolutely no WiFi service for customers. As there was excellent digital phone service, as in all of Germany, I would not have noticed the lack of WiFi - except that I read an old review on Yelp from a disgusted young German. Schön ist es nicht. - Eine alte Tante mit Zwiebelgeruch, erzählte etwas Märchen, dass WiFi zu teuer um zie kostenloss an Kunden zu verschenken. Ein altmodischer Ort aus einer anderen Zeit. Nice it's not. - Some old aunt with onion odor told us a fairy tale that WiFi is too expensive to give away to customers. An old-fashioned place from another time. I guarantee you this lack of WiFi will change only when the current hotel owner dies and his son takes over, if then. The hotel and vineyard has been in the same family for 400 years. They could easily afford to install WiFi, but that would require knowing about it or caring what some young German wants.It's not a money investment, but a mind space investment requiring a cultural change.