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E-Mail Zero: Imagining Life Without E-Mail

4 pointsby fbuilesvabout 13 years ago

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zalewabout 13 years ago
&#62; <i>E-mail is the best way to send files.</i><p>What? Using email as a document exchange system is a curse, there are so many file sharing, version control and collaboration tools it needs to vanish.<p>Regarging else: while I am currently heavily relying on email communication, I believe 'email is dead'. The rapid raise of collaboration and social communication tools, along with new ideas for internet ID, all will make it obsolete in the future.
ertdfgcbabout 13 years ago
It's interesting to see the transition of our written communication over time as technology improves. The trend seems to be going towards face to face communication, but with words; the latency is being decreased, and the intuitiveness is being increased. Also, it is getting more informal, perhaps because formality was primarily a function of the difficulty in communicating, a response is more likely to be refined if it is the only response you will be sending for a month.