securitybreach Posted August 15, 2014 Share Posted August 15, 2014 All these people are trying to kill email. "E-mail is dead, or at least that’s what Silicon Valley is banking on," wrote Businessweek tech reporter Ashlee Vance. There's the co-founder of Asana, the work software startup. Email has "become a counter-productivity tool,” Justin Rosenstein likes to say. Slack, the superhot work chat tool, likes to brag that they've "saved the world from over 70,000,000 emails" (if you assume that every five Slack messages prevent one email from getting its wings). And it's not just entrepreneurs with cloud software to sell. There are the young people, too, especially whatever we call the younger-than-Millennials. Getting an email address was once a nerdy right of passage for Gen-Xers arriving on college campuses. Now, the kids are waging a war of indifference on poor old email, culling the weak and infirm old-people technology. One American professor maintained that, to his students, "e-mail was as antiquated as the spellings 'chuse' and 'musick' in the works by Cotton Mather and Jonathan Edwards." The vice-chancellor of Exeter University claimed, "There is no point in emailing students any more." The youth appear to think there are better, faster, more exciting ways to communicate than stupid email. ...... http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/08/why-email-will-never-die/375973/?single_page=true Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted August 16, 2014 Share Posted August 16, 2014 Well, email is likely the only person-to-person, non-realtime, communication medium left. You can still leave an email unread, un-replied to, unanswered, ignored for hours or days and still come back to it and answer it, without people getting upset like they might with IM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted August 16, 2014 Author Share Posted August 16, 2014 Well, email is likely the only person-to-person, non-realtime, communication medium left. Your forgetting about the feds that also read your emails... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amenditman Posted August 16, 2014 Share Posted August 16, 2014 The best thing on the Internet is all the free online education. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted August 16, 2014 Share Posted August 16, 2014 That is one of THE ABSOLUTE bests for sure amenditman! Not the only or even some of the best, but the absolute best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amenditman Posted August 17, 2014 Share Posted August 17, 2014 In no time at all, we will be able to get a free college education online. I hope no one screws this up. It is too good for corporate greed and selfishness. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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