Good emails should be written like pseudo code, I suspect this will happen or emails will finally die for something that provides this type of capability of exchanging information in order to facilitate decision making.
Being able to tell an AI what you want and have it translated to actual goals for agents to use to negotiate, and have the result of their search translated back to concise plain text would be great.
The only problem with audio/Loom messages is that it is not easily indexable, but that's a tooling problem that can be easily solved.
I rarely use email (I may ask someone to compose an email for me). In this setup, I do see value if I had a Slack bot that I could say to "ask lawyers for an update on X". But even then, people would immediately know that the email came not from "me"...
Personally, I'd like to see more tooling around
* using AI to auto-polish video/audio communication, e.g. remove long pauses, skip filler words, etc.
* summarizing video/audio/text communication into bullet points of intel and actions
Input and high quality audio is the biggest barrier at the moment.
When I say input, I mean that we need something similar to sousveillance tech that can contribute to conversation without me actively switching context. Just like we would in a real-world conversation.
When I say audio, I mean that no one wants to listen poorly articulated voice messages that are hard to follow. We need tech that can make each of us sound smart.
It will happen. Few interesting startups in this space.
I'm glad you and I do not try to correspond!
The opposite is true in Asia.
Receiving a long text would not be necessarily rude, but unusual.
This just shifts the burden from you to the recipient. I don't want to listen to a 1-minute voice message where you pause and try to collect your thoughts, rather than spend two seconds reading two sentences.