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Mark Zuckerberg, most famously, thought that Facebook would kill email (2010): http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1329979/Facebook-email-Mark-Zucker

• rhizome 14y ago
  That's not even close to saying that email is dead. Plus, consider the source.
  • mijustin 14y ago
    How about the BBC? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15856116#TWEET33746 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15856116#TWEET33746 It's not an explicit "email is dead" but he was definitely suggesting email would lose in favor of messaging systems on social platforms (like Facebook). Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg echoed this in this talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm8NdNy4wOM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm8NdNy4wOM
    • rhizome 14y ago
      Again, in none of these examples is anybody saying that email is dead. It's writers interpreting Zuck words to mean that, but the BBC is doing the exact same thing as the people they're writing about, a commentary Ouroboros that is based on nothing. To be sure, Carr is even more of a hack than any of these people, but again: consider the source.