I really don't see what's the author's conclusion has anything to do with the White House. Obviously the guy wants to end email, like 1000 people try during the

I really don't see what's the author's conclusion has anything to do with the White House. Obviously the guy wants to end email, like 1000 people try during the last decade, and doesn't realize it's not gona happen. Email is a resilient distributed widely supported and used open standard. Nothing is closed to it for communications, the closed farms such as slacks and whatsapp are handy, but they are centralized, non standard, company controlled tools requiring much more resources to dispatch messages and tend to lead to information overload.