What Would a Post-Email World Look Like? 314
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jfruh writes "Pundits have been gleefully predicting the death of email for years, but nobody has really been able to explain what will replace email, especially for the medium's archiving capabilities that businesses and governments have come to rely on. It's possible that email won't vanish, but rather become invisible, one component of an integrated communication stream that will be transparent to users but still present — and useful — under the hood. It may turn out that Google's Wave, which was built on this idea, was just a bit ahead of its time."
If my work inbox is any indication... (Score:5, Funny)
It isn't going away soon.
Well (Score:5, Funny)
Presumably it will join the keyboard and mouse, which have apparently been just about to become obsolete for most of the last 15 years.
Not that it will matter, of course, because the Internet is mere weeks away from becoming catastrophically overloaded & falling apart and it has been for years.
Re:Video mail will replace email. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Video mail will replace email. (Score:4, Funny)
And aluminum pants. Never forget the aluminum pants.
Re:As long as... (Score:5, Funny)
Kevin Costner could deliver your messages by hand.
And seriously, things might have to go that wrong before email goes away.
Re:That's funny (Score:4, Funny)
Very true.
If it wasn't for email I wouldn't even know about all these new social networks that are constantly springing up.
Re:If my work inbox is any indication... (Score:2, Funny)
sounds like a user problem to me. I've had email since 1992 and never had any of those problems. noobs, gotta love 'em.
Re:If my work inbox is any indication... (Score:5, Funny)
We're talking about real email that's connected to the outside world here, not your Compuserve account.
The link at the end of the article... (Score:5, Funny)
...invites you to "Email article."