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Why convergence won’t happen

Posted by strom on January 2, 2003

The Consumer Electronics Show was held last week in Vegas, and the big news from the show is more talk about convergence of home electronics and computing. I got this incredible sense of déjà vu and it made me dust off a column that I wrote for Inforworld nearly ten years ago on the topic. The column begins:

“I am sick and tired about hearing about the coming convergence of consumer electronics, computers, and communications. And most of the articles that I’ve read about this mega-trend are focused in the wrong area.

You can read the entire essay here.

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