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Email is the only revolutionary communication technology there is. The next evolution is that of email lists. Anything else beyond these two, be that Twitter, Facebook, etc (they are nothing more than public email) are not evolutionary in true sense.

I'd only take away BCC feature from the email as a mistake, or useless. Email-lists should have been the true BCC.

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Only? IRC is pretty rockin'.

IRC/Live-chatting does not really solve any new problem which the Email has not solved already. If you look at live-chatting in the corporate and the personal world, you'll see that most often (and when things gets tough) people tend to either pick up a phone, or they'd send long-form email.

A lot of people would disagree with you. Sure, once something requires higher bandwidth or longer-form 1:1 or 1:few communication, it makes sense to switch modes but there's a lot of value in short-form synchronous communications. I don't actually use IRC/IM comms a lot myself (other than as a sidebar for video meetings) but I have in the past and would do more in different citcumstances.

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