As asynchronous electronic connectivity became commodotized in the 80's and 90's, two types of tools became pervasive: e-mail for one-to-one (1:1) or one-to-few (1:F) communications, and bulletin boards (then Internet forums) for many-to-many (M:M) communications. Since I'm mostly interested in group sensemaking, I'm going to ignore 1:M communcations for this post.
Enterprise 2.0 has begun to explore how social media can be used on a scale that is much smaller and more formal than the Internet. That exploration is mostly of 1:1 & 1:F capabilities, since most group conversations inside an enterprise are on that scale.
Given that e-mail is basically snail mail in an electronic form, it would seem that e-mail might disintegrate into multiple capabilities that are crafted for the various types of small group activities.
Matt Moore (engineerswithoutfears.blogspot.com) has an interesting post & SlideShare of how he sees e-mail disentegrating...check it out.
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