I disagree wholeheartedly. Email can do much, much more than its original incarnations. Let's take a look at what I can do with email now: 1. I can send invite

I disagree wholeheartedly. Email can do much, much more than its original incarnations. Let's take a look at what I can do with email now: 1. I can send invites that automagically add an event to attendees' calendars. Not only that, but I can even set it up so that it reminds them about it an arbitrary time of my choosing before the event's about to start. 2. I can forward contact information around that will automagically put that contact info into the recipients address book. 3. I can create rich, HTML-based emails that now look spectacular instead of just a plain glob of text. 4. I can parse emails and have them file themselves into categories, along with assigning themselves deadlines for response/action entirely automatically. 5. I can now allocate a public folder of email that I can assign some alias to, such as "support@mydomain.com" and have that folder accessible by an entire team of people. And while I'm sure email could improve, I'm confused as to what things email doesn't do that you want it to do. So, rather than a pithy reply about how email hasn't changed in 30 years (which is simply untrue), why don't you elaborate with what it is you'd actually like to see email provide?