When will email protocols (IMAP/SMTP/MIME) be a thing of the past? How many years do you give it? 

I'd say 15 years from now most people won't be using email.

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I get very nervous when I think of replacing a free and open global protocol with something else, because it's less likely to be free and open and more likely to be controlled by one centralized power or another.

I think maybe you're right, but I hope the solution doesn't bite us in the ass.

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I'm definitely thinking of an evolved / open communications protocol that better supports the way most of the world communicates today - via chat.

Emails should be disposable and provisioned per connection

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One of the great powers of digital tech is that it’s not a zero sum. As in if you have information and give it to someone it’s additive

🗽based; 

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building @buoy 🛟; 
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That insight be is spot on. We need to improve on the way those interactions and connections are made

Agreed. Just emphasizing how difficult this problem is..