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I think it's naive to expect email to be replaced any time soon. Despite all the attempts over the years, it remains and persists. There are essentially no majo

by tensor 9y ago

I think it's naive to expect email to be replaced any time soon. Despite all the attempts over the years, it remains and persists. There are essentially no major ongoing efforts to replace it by any of the big players, which is what would be required. IM is not a substitute and never will be.

scoggs 9y ago
Agreed. People have been trying and trying but like like traditional letters and snail mail people have been trying to replace that for years unsuccessfully as well. There are use cases for all of the different methods and the level of security you require will usually dictate what methods you employ when it comes time to transmit any certain type of given message. The substitutes work for us based on convenience and preference and, for the most part, most people don't truly need secured end-to-end encryption for their daily correspondence (even though I personally think it would be a great habit to get into before it's an absolute requirement to ensure personal / private / public safety). Things like Signal are steps in the right direction but I only see a few notifications a month about friends and family joining. I'm not seeing rapid enough adoption from the "every (wo)man" to indicate that the public at large sees the need for end-to-end encryption, yet. Since we already got Snowden's revelations I'm not sure that time will ever come. Frustrating, it is.