--- title: Five Best: Why No One Has Successfully Reinvented Email description: This is why nobody has successfully reinvented email, get a good night’s sleep now to stave off Alzheimer’s disease in the future and more. canonical: https://time.com/4860701/why-no-one-has-successfully-reinvented-email/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-07-17T16:00:48.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:40.770Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Why No One Has Successfully Reinvented Email og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4860701/why-no-one-has-successfully-reinvented-email/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Why No One Has Successfully Reinvented Email twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Why No One Has Successfully Reinvented Email by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jul 17, 2017 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jul 17, 2017 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**This is why nobody has successfully reinvented email.**](http://mashable.com/2017/07/17/why-no-one-has-re-invented-email) By Pete Pachal in _Mashable_ **2\.** [**To stave off Alzheimer’s disease in the future, get a good night’s sleep now.**](https://source.wustl.edu/2017/07/sleep-alzheimers-link-explained/) By Tamara Bhandari at _Washington University in St. Louis_ **3\.** [**Tomatoes might hold the power to prevent skin cancer.**](https://news.osu.edu/news/2017/07/13/tomato-skin-cancer/) By Tracy Turner at _Ohio State University_ **4\.** [**What happens when software can outperform a doctor?**](http://money.cnn.com/2017/07/14/technology/business/radiology-doctors-artificial-intelligence/index.html) By Matt McFarland at _CNN_ **5\.** [**We’re finally exploring better ways to handle school lunch debt.**](http://www.startribune.com/there-are-better-ways-to-handle-school-lunch-debt/433200793/) By the Editorial Board of the _Star Tribune_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4860701/why-no-one-has-successfully-reinvented-email/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4860701/why-no-one-has-successfully-reinvented-email/"},"headline":"Why No One Has Successfully Reinvented Email","datePublished":"2017-07-17T16:00:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:40.770Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4860701/why-no-one-has-successfully-reinvented-email/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","medicine","Innovation","Education","Email","skin cancer","Alzheimer's"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4860701/why-no-one-has-successfully-reinvented-email/","name":"Why No One Has Successfully Reinvented Email"}}]}] ```