Iceland Gets Its First Xerox Machine
Iceland entered the 21st Century recently by pooling funds and buying a co-operatively owned and operated Xerox machine.
"It seems wasteful," said Prime Minister Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir. "Especially considering how much we've paid over the years fixing the state mimeograph machine. Next thing you know, people will want cell phones. But I'm perfectly content with my pager."
Nowadays, the Prime Minister keeps her phone off the hook, and doesn't read newspapers. "Isolation is a good thing. Perhaps I will declare a law banning all communication for three months. Give Iceland a chance to collect herself. I mean, what's so bad about oral tradition? Think of all the money we'll save on newsprint."
Unfortunately, the first people to use the Xerox machine were the hip band Reykjavik! And after using it to create a quirky music video, they exhausted the country's entire supply of toner cartridges, so the copier has been sold to a wealthy family in Luxembourg so their daughter can publish her own 'zine.
"It seems wasteful," said Prime Minister Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir. "Especially considering how much we've paid over the years fixing the state mimeograph machine. Next thing you know, people will want cell phones. But I'm perfectly content with my pager."
Nowadays, the Prime Minister keeps her phone off the hook, and doesn't read newspapers. "Isolation is a good thing. Perhaps I will declare a law banning all communication for three months. Give Iceland a chance to collect herself. I mean, what's so bad about oral tradition? Think of all the money we'll save on newsprint."
Unfortunately, the first people to use the Xerox machine were the hip band Reykjavik! And after using it to create a quirky music video, they exhausted the country's entire supply of toner cartridges, so the copier has been sold to a wealthy family in Luxembourg so their daughter can publish her own 'zine.