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Is Email Turning Into a 'Just Another Stream'?

Peter Yared, CTO/CIO at CBS Interactive, thinks that email is turning into "just another stream." In a think piece published on TechCrunch.com, Yared argues that email is evolving to keep up with the increasing volume and thinks that one day soon, a recipient won't see all of their emails. Instead, they'll only see emails from senders that a recipient repeatedly opens and inboxes will be sorted by relevance and not by date and time. "Mail systems are evolving to match the new volume of email, and users will increasingly see only algorithmically vetted emails," he writes. "Some other emails may be shown below the vetted email, and the rest will flow away into temporal oblivion, just like uninteresting social posts from a few hours ago."

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