Email will last forever, says author Gmail

“E-mail will not disappear. Perhaps never. Until the robots kill us all, ”said Paul Buchheit, author of Gmail, co-founder of FriendFeed, and is currently one of the system programmers on Facebook.

Paul Bakhheit added that he had never tried Google Wave, but this does not diminish his confidence in the bright future of email.

The discussion about the prospects of e-mail - one of the oldest network technologies - was held within the framework of the live broadcast RealTime CrunchUp , which was also attended by Rob Goldman (Rob Goldman), the founder of Threadsy (a service for integrating email messages into social streams like Twitter) TechCrunch. All of them were unanimous that nothing threatens e-mail.

Even in communication services like Twitter and Facebook, alerts are sent by e-mail. For example, some do not understand how to use Google Wave, if the mail does not receive notifications about new messages. Bakhayt said that he had never tried Google Wave at all, although, he grinned, the invite was somewhere in the mailbox.
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People are just not ready to live without e-mail. According to Backheit, they will never be ready.