In this episode of the Future in Five, I talk about the future of Email and whether it’s going to go away forever. The complete elimination of email is highly unlikely, at least for the foreseeable future, however some companies are embarking on a journey to do just that, at least for internal communication and collaboration purposes. Today Email is one of the unique personal public identifiers that we all have (another one is our phone number) and is still essential for communication OUTSIDE of the organization. Email will change and evolve, check out the video to learn how!
Oh and I also share a funny personal story from a recent stay at The Marriott in Boston 🙂
Great video!
I view email as a system of record and filing. While the use of it for casual communication will decrease within a company any official communications (be they alerts to information on the company intranet or not) and that of communications with outside vendors/companies will remain steady.
With regards to the collaboration method and how email will become a system of alert, I agree with that as well, however people are need quick tools for replaying, so I could see them communicate with the collaboration system through email as well, maintaining its functionality on and off site as there are many corporate systems that don’t allow access without proxy or if you aren’t on site for security.