The Wall Street Journal recently did a piece on the end of the email era.
The Journal maintains that email is too limiting and ineffective compared to the new media, especially the social media. I’ll get into that more in another post (especially regarding Twitter, IM, and text messaging for short, immediate communications) but right now I want to concentrate on the notion that longlasting interactions will be by voice or video.
Take a look at the WSJ article, the section entitled “Into the River”. I read this in 46 seconds. Then I went back and spoke it, as if I were leaving voicemail for someone. 112 seconds. I can understand how a video can convey images you cannot otherwise describe adequately, but the circumstances under which a voicemail is more efficient than written delivery of the message are limited indeed.
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Dan, this is really food for thought – audio messages do have limited value in many circumstances especially when compared to text messaging. But as they are still essential to many and are becoming integrated with text tech anyway, maybe there’s still hope that either won’t become extinct?