The deal, a coup for Mr. Lauren, will further blur the line between content and commerce at traditional media companies.
"At minimum, the election results will further blur the lines between Kurdish nationalism, political expediency and economic opportunism," Denise Natali, the dean and a scholar at the American University of Iraq in Sulaimaniya, wrote in a report for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Moreover, a new wave of applications from companies like eBay, Bank of America and America Online that are designed for the second-generation iPhone 3G, which went on sale Friday, will further blur the line between the Web and the iPhone.
TiVo, the maker of a popular digital video recorder, plans to announce a new set of Internet-based services today that will further blur the line between programming delivered over traditional cable and satellite channels and content from the Internet.
But a lesson from the WebCams is that, whatever happens, private Webcasting will continue to boom because people still want to keep an eye on their loved ones, their possessions, or just the conveniences that make a difference to their everyday lives, like the car park at work.Inevitably, the growth of amateur Webcasting will further blur the indistinct boundary between public and private.
In advertisements and in interviews, Keiji Tachikawa, chief executive and president of NTT DoCoMo, has been sketching out his vision of a next-generation digital cellular network to be initiated early next year, when DoCoMo plans to offer five types of wireless Internet access devices that will further blur the line between cell phones and computers.
The iPad will further blur the lines between device categories and contribute to the coming confusion.
Of course, the update also means a bit of a price bump, from $999 to $1,199, which is one of many things that will further blur the line between the redesigned Air and the entry-level MacBook.
By opening up the communications stack via the API in a holistic way and introducing video and P2P realtime data transport, Apple will open a new world of communications apps that will further blur the lines between computers and communications devices.
These and other technological advances on the horizon will further blur the boundaries between the real and the virtual.
