1. Show you how open standards are important. This might be an argument for Bitcoin vs. Banks.
Eh? Speaking for the US, the Federal Reserve Bank is the US equivalent of a standard protocol. Before a central bank existed, states and colonies had their own currencies which created many problems, which makes your argument for open standards quite good.
Which is why I don't think any paid service will ever beat a protocol for communication. Email may eventually diminish (I see no evidence of this forthcoming anytime soon, though), but I don't think it will be replaced by anything other than a better protocol on top of which independent services will be built.
Eh? Speaking for the US, the Federal Reserve Bank is the US equivalent of a standard protocol. Before a central bank existed, states and colonies had their own currencies which created many problems, which makes your argument for open standards quite good.
Which is why I don't think any paid service will ever beat a protocol for communication. Email may eventually diminish (I see no evidence of this forthcoming anytime soon, though), but I don't think it will be replaced by anything other than a better protocol on top of which independent services will be built.