Email to be extinct in 10 years? Eh, probably not.

While looking forward to the future, it’s always fun to think about what is “hot” now and how it will undergo the usual tech transformation into old, outdated, and dead technology. The telephone used to be an amazing wonderment of scientific engineering. Now it’s nothing special. Much the same, email was at one point the pinnacle of technological achievement. Today everyone including their grandma and maybe even her dog have at least one email address. So what type of lifespan or useful timeline can we place on email?

10 more years is all we’ve got with the electronic mail service if TalkTalk’s claims are to be followed. 10 years. That isn’t very long from now at all. Look how far we’ve come sense the first email was sent way back in the 60′s. Email hasn’t changed really. It’s still a simple file transfer service. Can it really be going the way of the dodo in as little as 10 years? I doubt that. In fact I guarantee email will be around for decades to come. TalkTalk bases their response on how snail mail has become less valuable over time as well as taken into consideration the how quickly technology advances and that ever exciting technology doubling rule — technology doubles every 9 months. At that rate, will email really be extinct in as little as one decade?