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What Would a Post-Email World Look Like?
jfruh writes "Pundits have been gleefully predicting the death of email for years, but nobody has really been able to explain what will replace email, especially for the medium's archiving capabilities that businesses and governments have come to rely on. It's possible that email won't vanish, but rather become invisible, one component of an integrated communication stream that will be transparent to users but still present — and useful — under the hood. It may turn out that Google's Wave, which was built on this idea, was just a bit ahead of its time."
It isn't going away soon.
Presumably it will join the keyboard and mouse, which have apparently been just about to become obsolete for most of the last 15 years.
Not that it will matter, of course, because the Internet is mere weeks away from becoming catastrophically overloaded & falling apart and it has been for years.
And it will be replaced by flying cars and personal jetpacks.
Bark less. Wag more.
And aluminum pants. Never forget the aluminum pants.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Kevin Costner could deliver your messages by hand.
And seriously, things might have to go that wrong before email goes away.
Very true.
If it wasn't for email I wouldn't even know about all these new social networks that are constantly springing up.
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