Could Email Die?

Interesting consideration.... quote from John McKinley (formerly AOL CTO and, later, President of Digital Services.)

"We are in the midst of an important moment of truth - email as we know it is under attack, and the major firms are not moving fast enough to prevent it from becoming more of a niche form of communications in the next 5 years. The email experience of today is being threatened on multiple fronts by a variety of new forms of communication:

Twitter/short-form blogging

Asynchronous messaging in social networks (e.g., the Facebook Wall)

IM experiences now supporting queuing of messages to offline buddies

Away message/Status message utilization in instant messaging

SMS adoption (late to come to the US, but now pervasive)......................."

..........see full list at Lightspeed's blog ....where I clipped this from.....