In the age of the Internet, converging technologies and new advertising media, can it really keep those revenues flowing?
While there is some lingering litigation, the company has moved on and we're focused on the next big things in communications and converging technologies.
Further complications are caused when standardization is concerned with converging technologies.
SimpliVity is another disruptor in the fast growing market for converging technologies that integrate compute, storage and networking.
More recently, nanotechnology and so-called converging technologies have led to the establishment of what is called nanoethics (Allhoff et al. 2007).
In particular, my work has focused on issues affecting the development and commercialization of emerging and converging technologies, the adequacy of the nation's science and engineering workforce, and balance in the federal R&D portfolio.
Eleonore Pauwels is Director of the Anticipatory Intelligence Lab at the Wilson Center, an international science policy expert specializing in the governance and democratization of converging technologies, and a former official of the European Commission's Directorate on Science, Economy and Society.
In particular, this has been and still is the case in the fields of nanotechnology [17], human enhancement and the converging technologies [10, 25], synthetic biology and climate engineering.
After a qualitative content analysis on the groups' results, six categories of discontinuities could be differentiated: 1) new risks, 2) converging technologies, 3) value changes, 4) environmental economy, 5) changes in big companies, and 6) geopolitical changes (Table 2).
Third, by being under pressure from economical or societal parties that have an interest in the fast development of converging technologies, as is the case with smart grid technologies that ultimately serve the goal to prevent climate change and energy bottlenecks by integration of highly decentralized renewable energy sources.
