Convergence

The movement from diversity to unity. The Committee for the Future created a conference system call Synergetic Convergence (SYNCON) to bring diverse ideas, people, and future goals into a unified experience and merger of ideas and goals. In business, this can be the blending of culture and ideas into a single product. More recently, it has become popular to talk about technological convergence. A smartphone is the convergence of an alarm clock, television, computer, calculator, typewriter, telephone, newspaper, library, camera, and other technologies. Larger scale technological convergence made popular by the U.S. National Science Foundation is nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology and cognitive sciences (NBIC).