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The death of email...

Email is getting more and more useless by the minute. I hardly think anyone with a high degree of connectedness would argue this. So what comes next? Ray Ozzie says some interesting things.

According to Ray Ozzie, we will for our proffessional work move over to tighter, more controlled workspaces where the people we do critical business with will join us to do efficient online work.

Email will not be a helper in the future, it will be handled as a necessary tool (evil?) for open communication. You will not do any important communication using that tool.

Right now, every major enterprise has a "content-scanning gateway" that processes every incoming email, looking for Dangerous Stuff. Many individuals do the same thing on their own computers. Some enterprises are beginning to quarantine incoming email for extended periods - sometimes an hour or more. Maybe you'll get too much junk, or maybe you won't get what you're supposed to get. Maybe you'll get it, but it'll be too late. It depends upon where they turn the knob on the software ... and it's insane.

I think he is right. Going through my now easier browsed information feeds (thanks to Bloglines) this morning I saw that Joi Ito also has written on the subject. He talks about p-time and m-time in relation to keeping on touch with the context in which interesting things and people develop and communicate.

He is saying the same thing as Ray Ozzie: email is being down prioritized to a background activity. IRC, IM and blog posts are more important than the uncontrolled email environment.

Ray Ozzie's Weblog: Death of email

Joi Ito: Going p-time

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