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- While email's continued evolution is significant, what it has retained from the old web sets it apart from the other pretty, convenient apps. Email is an open, interoperable protocol. Someone can use Google's service, spin up a server of her own, or send messages through Microsoft's enterprise software. And yet all of these people can communicate s... See more
from Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet by Alexis Madrigal
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- 5. The future of email is not in a new UI
from 5 lessons from Mailbox’s shut-down by Mathilde Collin
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Famously, when Gmail came along, Google told us to stop trying to organize (and delete) our email and instead just rely on search to find what we’re looking for. Broadly I’d say that approach has worked well, and in the vast majority of cases, I err on the side of risking losing track of something later instead of spending the time to organize it n
... See morefrom The Folksonomy Edition by Colin Nagy
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A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload
by Cal Newport
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- 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.
from Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet by Alexis Madrigal
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- This is a future in which, for the privileged, almost everything is home delivered, either virtually via streaming and cloud technology, or physically via driverless vehicle or drone, then screen “shared” on a mediated platform. It’s a future that employs far fewer teachers, doctors and drivers. It accepts no cash or credit cards (under guise of vi... See more
from The Guardian by Naomi Klein
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f humans are to make new ways forward in partnership with nature and technology, we must first take a close look at and upend the concepts, histories, institutions and systems that support the inequitable distribution of resources and power.
from Afro-Now-Ism by Stephanie Dinkins
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