E-mail Demise Debated

Interesting article in Wired regarding the end of Email.  We like this discussion—especially in context with the comments below the article.  No we don’t think email is going anywhere anytime soon either; as much as we think it becomes one of many communication channels people must manage to serve their business relationships.  As we mentioned while technologists were forecasting the death of voice mail.  Channels rarely go away.  They just change.

from Wired:
Vascellaro has it just about right, I think. And although reports of the death of e-mail are obviously premature, it’s fun to look for signs of a paradigm shift within a paradigm a mere 38 years after the first e-mail was sent. After all, haven’t many of the other original internet protocols already been shown the door, like Usenet, WAIS, Gopher and Archie? What makes e-mail so invincible?

E-mail isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, for sure, even though its imminent irrelevance has been predicted for years — here’s a Slate article from two years ago that said even then that only old fogeys used e-mail.