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In your opinion what will be the future for email? I don't think email is going away. In fact, I expect quite the opposite: Email will expand as a platform fo
by cperciva 12y ago
In your opinion what will be the future for email?
I don't think email is going away. In fact, I expect quite the opposite: Email will expand as a platform for other not-exactly-realtime messaging.
For many years now we have had things like meeting invitations, electronic airline boarding passes, and concert tickets sent via email; I think we will see more things like this, and with a greater degree of integration so that for people with suitably "intelligent" user-agents, these messages will be automatically filtered out of the incoming email and processed separately -- much like we used to do with procmail, of course.
- mmrasheed 12y agoI agree with you. Just because it is decades old technology doesn't necessarily mean it has to be replaced with something. I have observed that the familiarity and usage of email among teens is alarmingly low. Then again, I don't see any better alternative to non-realtime, guaranteed delivery, suitable for both formal and informal communication and can-handle-all communication protocol like email. Perhaps todays teens will lead the way for building the alternative to email.