'I've never sent an email, and I never will' MLB commissioner Bud Selig says
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig insists he's never sent and email -- and never plans to. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
The Commissioner of Major League Baseball has never sent an email and he never will, he claims.
Bud Selig revealed his technophobia at a press conference Monday, claiming that he shouldn't have to learn how to send emails if he doesn't want to.
"I've never sent an email, and I never will," he said, according to Eric Fisher, journalist for the Sports Business Journal.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}During the press conference Fisher tweeted:
"Selig: 'I've never sent an e-mail and I never will.' Has recently upgraded to an iPhone, though."
Selig is one of the few powerful people who have publicly admitted to refusing to use email.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}In 2011 Thierry Breton, CEO of one of the world's largest IT companies Atos banned emails in the workplace.
If people want to talk to me, call or send me a text message," he told The Wall Street Journal . "Emails cannot replace the spoken word."
Shayne Hughes, CEO of leadership consulting firm Learning as Leadership banned email in his company for a week. He argued that it was making workers inefficient.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}"Reading, processing, managing, organizing, and responding to it absorbs vast amounts of time," he said.
Read more about Selig's low-tech approach at News.com.au.