You've Got Mail!

The first networked electronic mail message was sent by Ray Tomlinson of Bolt Beranek and Newman in 1971. This year, according to market research firm Radicati Group, 3.8 billion email users worldwide will send 281 billion messages every day. You may feel like a substantial number of them end up in your inbox. And yet, some observers say email is dying. It's so'last century', they say, compared to social media messaging, texting, and powerful new collaboration tools.