Just dug up an old 1997 magazine where some guy said email would kill the postal service forever

I was cleaning out my dad's attic last weekend and found a stack of old tech magazines from the late 90s. There was this article from a 'futurist' claiming that by 2005 nobody would send physical mail anymore because email would take over everything. But here I am in 2024 still getting junk mail every single day and Christmas cards from my aunt in Ohio. I even got a package delivered yesterday from Amazon... how did that email prediction miss so hard. Anyone else got some ancient tech predictions they've stumbled across recently?

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the_henry16d ago

My email inbox is a mess too, so I guess we're both failing at predictions.

maryadams16d ago

A clean inbox just means you've been deleting things instead of dealing with them.