[xwolfi]

Yeah but petrol cars weren't serviced as well as now when they started (arguably with a much longer range per much faster "charge", maybe). EVs are probably going to be a good idea, it'll just take time.

Imagine in 1995 saying emails will never replace sending around documents at the office, just because there wasn't any infra yet. Wait a bit, or even help !

[toyg]

ICE cars had an advantage though: if you ran out of petrol, you could hitch to the closest garage, fill up a tank, and you were back in business.

With EVs it's always going to require a tow, which is a nightmare experience I don't recommend to anyone.

[bluGill]

There are non tow options for evs. a ev can recharge another (non do this, but they could). Or a generator can be brought to the ev.

[fsckboy]

today, i consider email to be a failure, Imagine saying that in 1995. I rarely get them or have a need to send them which amplifies the spam ratio.

It annoys me to get and send pdfs in text messages, but that seems to be how the world works now.

[pbourke]

> It annoys me to get and send pdfs in text messages, but that seems to be how the world works now.

Do you mean PDFs for correspondence such as bills or invoices? That is not common for me.

[fsckboy]

mostly referring to pdfs to fill out and "e signature", my assistant sends them to me all the time.

[bluGill]

In 1995 email was very common, but it was always a propriatory system that only could be used in your office. Very little was connected to an outside network.

[ghaff]

We had an email system starting before I joined in the mid-80s (a product we made called CEO) but it was purely internal until well into the 90s. I'm not sure exactly when most people had some form of interoperable email but it was well into the dot-com era.

I still use email pretty frequently even if communications are at least somewhat fragmented across SMS, Facebook, Slack, etc.