The Future of Email: The Internet's Least Exciting Application

Email is not sexy. That is to say, the design and functionality of electronic mail, since its inception, have remained fundamentally consistent and relatively unexciting— we type out messages, send them to our contacts and wait for a reply.

In 10 years, that foundation will still exist, but we'll likely have a lot more options.

According to experts, such as Yesware founder Matthew Bellows, the time for email to expand and innovate is now.

"There was an idea that email was dead a few years ago," Bellows tells Mashable. "That's just not true, obviously." Read more...