Maybe PG conceptualizes his email inbox as a bad distributed todo list, but I'm sure lots of people don't. I don't. My work processes are in an actual distribut

Maybe PG conceptualizes his email inbox as a bad distributed todo list, but I'm sure lots of people don't. I don't. My work processes are in an actual distributed todo list of sorts. That said, clearly email is being replaced by other messaging techniques. There was an infamous Slashdot story in 2004 (christ I'm getting old) In Korea, Email is Only For Old People[0]. Back then, it was blogs, IMs and SMS, these days it's, well, still blogs and IMs and SMS but also Twitter and Facebook messages. Particularly Facebook messages. Which is reason enough to think about replacing email -- with something that is as attractive to people as these techniques, but not proprietary, but rather at least as cross-platform, distributed and reliable as email. [0] http://slashdot.org/story/04/11/30/0034259/in-korea-email-is-only-for-old-people http://slashdot.org/story/04/11/30/0034259/in-korea-email-is...