[XMPPwocky]

> It’s clearly not in final form. In 1978, people couldn’t see the use of home computers. In 1988, most people were saying the same thing about email. In 1998, most people were saying the same thing about the internet.

Give it a few more years for more people to forget about how hard things like NFTs got pushed with the same sort of arguments- then this'll come off better.

[plasticeagle]

That one technology worked does not automatically mean any other technology will. There is no argument that begins "A worked and so B will too". Also, email is pretty much dead as a technology - it's just spam and password reset emails at this point.

[edmundsauto]

I think parent was not saying new tech will succeed, merely there is an extended hangover/negativity due to recent busts.

Regarding email - it's probably one of the most used bits of technology in existence, and I bet it has a similar OOM economic impact to something like Excel. Calling it a dead technology is not accurate - so much business is done via email, especially internally at SMB.