Concept of Convergence

Nowadays, we use the internet without much thought about the term "convergence." When you think of the word "convergence," technology doesn't exactly come to mind, at least not for me anyway. This term actually has a lot to do with technology. According to freedictionary.com, convergence is the combining of different forms of electronic technology, such as data processing and word processing converging into information processing The internet was created simply as a means for communication amongst computers at various universities and laboratories. As you already know, the internet nowadays does a lot more than that. With the internet now, anybody that has access to a computer and internet can read the news because all three of those mediums has been converged into one. Cell phones are good examples of technological convergence. Most cell phones today comes equipped with a camera, internet, mp3 player, etc. Games consoles today, such as the playstation 3 can also play DVDs, so you won't be needing to shell out that extra 50 bucks for a dvd player if you already have playstation 3 or planning on buying one. Companies want to be able to make technology more efficient, and that in turn, makes it more marketable meaning you will see many different companies work together to make a good product to sell such as microsoft and apple working together to create itunes.