The Future of Email: The Internet's Least Exciting Application
 

The Future of Email: The Internet's Least Exciting Application
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Email is **t ***y. That is to say, the design and functionality of electronic mail, since its inception, have remained fundamentally consistent and relatively unexciting— we type out messages, send them to our contacts and wait for a reply.

In 10 years, that foundation will still exist, but we'll likely have a lot more options.

See also: 10 Chain Emails That Haunted Your Youth


According to experts, such as Yesware founder Matthew Bellows, the time for email to expand and in**vate is **w.

"There was an idea that email was dead a few years ago," Bellows tells Mashable. "That's just **t true, obviously." Read more...

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