"Email sucks and is like telegraph, it will disappear"

I am at the email panel at Supernova, here is what Stowe Boyd of Corante Research just expressed, you can also find Stowe's views on his email panel weblog.

"Email is great in the notion that you have an universal address. It is attractive but it is also the reason why there is so much spam. 90% of US email is Spam.

Email is not a conversational medium, it is really not designed to have conversations. It is really not based on a face to face communication.

My hope is that people will walk away from email. In a few years we will look at email as a nice thing of the past still useful for little things, like fax has become when we really need to send a printed document and we are lazy to digitize it.

Some things should be done in IM, some other things on a blog, others on wikis. People will walk away from email."

Do you agree ? I am starting to agree more and more but not 100% yet... Part of the future of email is Syndication.