Passport stamps are slowly becoming obsolete because countries are rapidly transitioning to biometric facial recognition gates and electronic visas to speed up the notoriously sluggish border control processes.

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Passport stamps are slowly becoming obsolete because countries are rapidly transitioning to biometric facial recognition gates and electronic visas to speed up the notoriously sluggish border control processes. While this is objectively great for efficiency and catching international fugitives, it deeply offends the delicate ego of the modern traveler who relies on colorful ink stamps to validate their worldly persona. Without the physical proof cluttering up your passport pages, how will you casually humble-brag to the barista about your month-long spiritual retreat in Bali when you get home. Soon, our passports will just be blank, depressing little booklets, and we will have to rely entirely on annoying photo dumps to prove to everyone that we do, in fact, leave the house!