Future of e-mail

Email has it's origins in solid standards... back in the day when IT folk were propeller heads who understood assembly and thought about consequences. These days you know a 16th GL, can put together a GUI in 2 minutes but don't know or want to know much about the gears that drive it all...
 
A simple test is when a companies email goes down. The whole company stops working.

On the flip side I think it's time to move on from email. Within 2 months of getting a new email address I'm already getting 100s of emails a day. Which is such a waste of time.
 
I think it's hilarious Facebook's idea we should look to kids to see what we'll all be doing in the future.

We should look to business and academia: where the PC got its start, where the Internet got its start, TCP/IP, the Web, SMTP, email, instant messaging, chat, everything: kids are the last in line to new technologies that are born in communities of grown-ups. Facebook is trying to lay a smokescreen in front of the fact that they are following, not leading, in new tech.
 
yeah, email will stay for long, though a new protocol for sending mail needs to be developed, smtp getting old, but still rock solid
 
Tomtomtom said:
I think it's hilarious Facebook's idea we should look to kids to see what we'll all be doing in the future.

We should look to business and academia: where the PC got its start, where the Internet got its start, TCP/IP, the Web, SMTP, email, instant messaging, chat, everything: kids are the last in line to new technologies that are born in communities of grown-ups. Facebook is trying to lay a smokescreen in front of the fact that they are following, not leading, in new tech.
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Um facebook was born in a university
 
^not really. You are clearly mistaken if you think Facebook is any type of revolutionary technology >.>
 
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I also think e-mail is here to stay, but I also feel the SMTP, but more so the POP protocol is getting a bit stale. Something that pushes the mail to the inbox, instead off clicking send/receive every 5 seconds when you are in in a hurry to get the OTP to do an Internet banking payment...
 
There will always be a need for a formal communications medium. Email fulfills that role perfectly and will continue to do so. Certainly, IM and Social help keep people conversing and informed of what other parties are doing but email is still the best inter company medium or even between employees. If you want dead technologies, look to physical mail and fax.
 
I remember a few years back when it was predicted IM would replace email, yes some companies do business using IM now more than in the past, but they defn got it wrong as a replacement.


Kosmik said:
There will always be a need for a formal communications medium. Email fulfills that role perfectly and will continue to do so. Certainly, IM and Social help keep people conversing and informed of what other parties are doing but email is still the best inter company medium or even between employees. If you want dead technologies, look to physical mail and fax.
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