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Email: Not Dead Yet (Quite the Opposite)

Email: Dead Man Walking. We've all heard this quite a bit recently. The most recent claim came from a Cisco blog titled Why Email's Days Are Numbered . While email's reign as King of online communication is clearly diminished, I don't believe that it's going away anytime soon. Although many contemporary products provide rich, multi-media experiences that make email seem quaint (anybody remember having a pen-pal?), I contend that email is still necessary and highly useful. Before I explain why, I must digress somewhat... I recently started reading World Wide Mind - The Coming Integration of Humans and Machines  by Michael Chorost . As the title implies, this book examines the extent to which humans and machines are currently integrated (pacemakers, cochlear implants, etc.) and the extent to which additional integration may be possible (optogenetic neural implants, etc.). Many concepts are discussed in the book, including psychology, neurology, nano technology, o