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>> All along, though, Gmail’s creators were building something to please themselves, figuring that their email problems would eventually be everybody’s problems. “Larry [Page] said normal users would look more like us in 10 years’ time,”

This reflects a common meme around here - pg has mentioned it in essays for example, but I am getting old now, and I am no longer sure if geek culture is still scouting several years ahead of the mainstream, or if it is and I am just no longer keeping up.

Who is living tomorrow's world and what does it look like?

I will throw in

- remote working - video conferencing and mobile phones - scheduling a meeting with someone's web site not their email.



group chat in place of email




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