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[ PRIVACY Forum ] "Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet"
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"Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet"
(Atlantic): http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/08/why-email-will-never-die/375973/
Yet, despite all the prognosticators predicting it will--choose the
violence level of your metaphor--go out of style, be put out to
pasture, or taken out back and shot, email grinds on.
You can't kill email! It's the cockroach of the Internet, and I mean
that as a compliment. This resilience is a good thing.
"There isn't much to sending or receiving email and that's sort of the
point," observed Aaron Straup Cope, the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum's
Senior Engineer in Digital and Emerging Media. "The next time someone
tells you email is 'dead,' try to imagine the cost of investing in
their solution or the cost of giving up all the flexibility that email
affords."
Email is actually a tremendous, decentralized, open platform on which
new, innovative things can and have been built. In that way, email
represents a different model from the closed ecosystems we see
proliferating across our computers and devices.
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--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
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