Take a look at google wave protocol. This should and I guess it will become the new e-mail. a powerful sponsor, openness, standards (xmpp), secure (tls) and a built-in (server-)network of trust (what people would like to see in SMTP and therefore inventing things like AMTP that probably never will see the public light).

So be careful with wishing email a fast dead.

Firstly, it's an open standard, which means you own your data, not some proprietary corporation that will doubtless gouge you for access in future.

Secondly, it remains nice to use, intuitive, asynchronous, fast, reliable. There're good reasons why it's so popular.

Young people may prefer evanescent chatter, but we grownups are more serious about keeping our word, and our words. The youth'll learn. In the meantime, the big corps can exploit them, same as it ever was.

Take a look at google wave protocol. This should and I guess it will become the new e-mail. a powerful sponsor, openness, standards (xmpp), secure (tls) and a built-in (server-)network of trust (what people would like to see in SMTP and therefore inventing things like AMTP that probably never will see the public light).

So be careful with wishing email a fast dead.

Firstly, it's an open standard, which means you own your data, not some proprietary corporation that will doubtless gouge you for access in future.

Secondly, it remains nice to use, intuitive, asynchronous, fast, reliable. There're good reasons why it's so popular.

Young people may prefer evanescent chatter, but we grownups are more serious about keeping our word, and our words. The youth'll learn. In the meantime, the big corps can exploit them, same as it ever was.