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Press Play with Madeleine Brand

The Pain and Promise of Email

What happens almost two hundred billion times a day across this planet of ours? Probably not what you’re thinking. We’re talking about emails getting sent. There’s all that emailing going on, but does anyone even like it? All we seem to do is complain how much email clogs our inbox and how we can’t find old emails. We’re bombarded with it 24-7.

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KCRW placeholderBy Barbara Bogaev • Mar 26, 2015 • 1 min read

What happens almost two hundred billion times a day across this planet of ours? Probably not what you’re thinking. We’re talking about emails getting sent. There’s all that emailing going on, but does anyone even like it? All we seem to do is complain how much email clogs our inbox and how we can’t find old emails. We’re bombarded with it 24-7. Madeleine spoke earlier this week with one man who set out to design a better way to email.

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    Barbara Bogaev

    radio journalist

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    Jolie Myers

    Managing Producer, 'Press Play'

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    Matt Holzman

    Producer, 'The Document'

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    Anna Scott

    Former KCRW Housing and Homelessness Reporter

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