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What We Lose When the World Moves on from Email (nytimes.com)
3 points by msh on July 12, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


The rumours of email's death have been greatly exaggerated. To the author: please take your own advice and step away from the keyboard.


I always laugh when some wannabe entrepreneur declares "email is broken!!1"

Email is hardly broken. It's actually an amazing system that works really well.


E-mail is broken (spam, and now centralization in Gmail). What is amazing is that it works so well despite being broken.




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