Is email "modern" technology?
alanthonyc: Maybe my wording is a little too antagonistic.  “Primitive” is a strong word, but I simply meant it in a relative sense: there are other methods more modern.Also, to brk's point, I am in no way advocating replacing email.  Email didn't replace the telephone, handwritten notes or face-to-face speech, it augmented them.But can it really be argued that email is the most modern form of communication?  Every innovation up to this point has reached critical mass, and then subsequently been supplanted in less time than the previous.  Basic writing took millenia, the printing press took centuries, the telephone took decades.  At this point, email is a few decades old and already mainstream.  It's due to be overtaken by the latest new thing, of which there are multiple candidates:* Discussion Forums
* Instant Messaging
* Wikis
* News Aggregation Sites
* Real-Time Information StreamsAgain, let me emphasize that I do not think email should be replaced.  But to a lot of people, email is the be-all and end-all of modern communications.  This is hardly the case.  It's more like the beginning, the starting point and the basis.  There are plenty of sophisticated tools at hand that can be used to solve specific problems which email is ill-suited to address.