Twilight of EMail

GigaOm has a good piece on the end of email, now about 40 years old.  Yes, it has become increasingly annoying.  But its annoyance is created in large part by its volume in the modern world.  I think it will continue to be adapted and we will see something very much like it for a long time.  Notable is their paragraph on the need for semantic web technology to make sense of unstructured data like text and general communications.  We will see more of that provided in coming years as part of what we now call EMail.