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November 05, 2013 | By:  Nick Morris
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E-mail - The Zombie Technology That Refuses To Die...

This coming weekend I will be participating in The Dark Art of Dark Social: Email, the antisocial medium which will not die at SpotOn London 2013 via Skype or Google Hangouts from the campus at Newcastle University Medicine Malaysia (NUMed) with Alan Cann (University of Leicester).

The reason I became involved was because a series of blog posts earlier this year on the evils of e-mail (see My hypothesis: e-mail is evil and deserves to die!, Problems with email….. I appear to have touched a nerve…, What is wrong with e-mail? Can it be fixed?, What is wrong with e-mail? Can it be fixed? - The Programmers, What is wrong with e-mail? Can it be fixed? - The Receiver and the dreaded FYI, What is wrong with e-mail? Can it be fixed? - The Receiver and meta-data and What is wrong with e-mail? Can it be fixed? - The Sender, and What is wrong with e-mail? Can it be fixed? - My battle to get e-mail working again - some tips and suggestions), and I had been chatting to Alan about the subject online, and how I feel that e-mail is an old technology that has had its day, and that we now desperately need a replacement that better meets our needs and is more like the type of communication we now regularly use, e.g. text, instant messages etc.

I have also been asked to put together a short video outlining my views just in case we can’t the technology to work, which I have now decided to post online at http://youtu.be/n8oYeOQC_qU, feel free to give it a watch…

Image: Apparently there is a cocktail called a Zombie, which is what you may need after a day of dealing with e-mail! - Source - Wikimedia

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