Why email may never go away

The granddaddy of Internet communication has brushed off one purported giant killer after another (Does anybody remember Google Wave?) and Adrienne LaFrance argues that it may deserve to live forever: "Email works. It’s open. It’s lovely on mobile. And as other forms of communication theoretically lighten the burden email places on people, perhaps it will become more tolerable again. The guilt people often associate with email is, after all, not technological."

January 22, 2016

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