The growth of home recording is a convergence of technology, thrift and shifting musical tastes that has been building for decades.
"The original idea was to try to exploit what we saw as a convergence of technology, culture and politics," says Halperin, now a national security aide to President Clinton, "a version of a Fox or a Disney that would be more politically progressive and more culturally adventurous".
In the past decade, we witnessed a convergence of technology and demographics that have had an unprecendented effect on the diagnosis, therapy, and practice of medicine as it relates to prostate cancer.
Twenty years ago Wurman imagined how a convergence of technology, entertainment and design could lead to a new era of user-friendly devices and software; he started TED to promote the concept.
According to Gourley, building a next-generation product -- or future-proof brand -- can come down to a convergence of technology and ideas.
He describes the approach as "point-of-care pathology," part of a convergence of medical technologies that make it increasingly possible for surgeons and medical technicians to make informed, on-the-spot decisions about patient care.
Only a convergence of these technologies will provide the ingredients to create the fabric for a new generation of distributed intelligent systems.
Then again, there has been a convergence of various technologies that has made AI a reality.
