tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10238534.post4185410476668297258..comments2023-11-05T04:35:19.263-05:00Comments on Faceless Bureaucrat: Form and Reality: Binding Signatures and Notaries PublicBill Harshawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02094598931693185805noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10238534.post-75375728926204605422011-04-25T22:18:41.190-04:002011-04-25T22:18:41.190-04:00Agreed. The Electronic Signatures Act was enacted...Agreed. The Electronic Signatures Act was enacted 11 years ago, but you wouldn't know it in many fields, e.g. real estate. Basically, the more important the subject or the larger the loan amount, the more likely you are to need a handwritten ink signature. Then you also have some legal stuff like settlements and wills, that'll go on requiring signatures for another generation or so. Electronic court filing has largely done away with most notarized/signed court filings,and is why those annoying bike messengers went out of business. Notaries will likely be gone entirely by 2050. But nowadays most of us have completed credit card applications and applied for jobs online, which would've been unimaginablew a mere 20 years ago, so maybe they'll be gone even sooner.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com