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There is a common understanding among Internet users that e-mail is one of the most trusted technologies around. Want to quit your job? E-mail your boss! Declare your flame to your boyfriend? Fire up Pine! Get information on applications for the fall semester at NYU? Hover to Mail.app! After all, it all seems so easy: type a few words, enter a generally easy to understand address and your missive is on its merry way, bouncing from MX record to MX record until it arrives in the hand of its giddy recipient. This however fails to take into account one of this century's most painful truths: e-mail, after so many years of being relied on, still doesn't work reliably — and I'm not talking about SPAM here but rather about the very structure of the network.
Email was designed for text. Simple ASCII text. Images, and other Binary files, are add on hacks. What is needed is a new overall system. One that can deal with binary files, formating, video(yea i know binary files). It should work both in real time communication(instant messaging, to voice, to video chat depending on bandwidth and desire) But it should also be able to hold messages for delivery later(like regular email).
The biggest hurdle though is bandwidth. Not everyone has broadband, so the low speed options(instant message, text based email) would need to be compact. But the ability to have both real time and delayed recieved video messages should be an intergral part.
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The biggest hurdle though is bandwidth. Not everyone has broadband, so the low speed options(instant message, text based email) would need to be compact. But the ability to have both real time and delayed recieved video messages should be an intergral part.