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app.hey.comShe says, “Email is a system that lets other people add things to my to-do list.” Right
Kevin Kelly • The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
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
Alexis Madrigal • Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet
No discussion of shallow work is complete without considering e-mail.
Cal Newport • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Known caveat: sometimes the medium is the message. A postcard is noticeably more personal than an email, a phone call conveys more emotion than a text, an Instagram message is more friendly than a Linkedin message. TBD how this is works out if all chats are merged into one.
Eric Migicovsky • The Universal Communication Bus
This is meant to be human communication. Technology needs to fade into the background, so I can simply chat with my friends, family and work colleagues. We need a universal communications bus.