[P2P-F] Fwd: Death of Email has been Severely Exaggerated - Summation

Sat May 21 15:17:48 CEST 2011

I'm with you on this Kevin, I'm not a fan of the real-time interruptions ...

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 7:31 AM, Kevin Carson <
free.market.anticapitalist at gmail.com> wrote:

> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Auren Hoffman Summation <auren at summation.net>
>
> > It is alive! The Death of Email Has Been Severely Exaggerated
>
> > The power of email is that it is asynchronous (the recipient can read it
> whenever they want), it can be personalized to the user (unlike a Twitter
> post where everyone reads the same message), it is inexpensive to send
> (unlike direct mail), free to receive (unlike SMS), it is very trackable,
> and it is easy to access for almost every American with a wallet.
> >
>
> I agree.  I think preference for email has more to do with the nature
> of the task, and the personality type of the user, than with
> generation.
>
> For me, the apogee of communications media--aside from limited
> task-oriented use of social media--are the landline phone with
> answering machine and old-fashioned email.
>
> I hate cell phones, and I hate the idea of having to interrupt what
> I'm doing to respond to a text every  time the damn thing buzzes about
> as much as I hate the idea of having to interrupt what I'm doing to
> answer a phone call.  The same thing applies to an IM bugging you
> while you're trying to work on something.
>
> The thing I love about email is that it's a non-realtime medium,  so
> you can answer it whenever it's convenient,  and organize your
> thoughts.  And you can do so without the space constraints or cost of
> a text.
>
> If I could install an answering machine on my doorbell, I would.
>
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