As information and its connected systems grow to fill the industrial core, borders separating disparate fields will fade. The resulting combinations are already underway.
This is the subject. Its aspects are broad and multiple.
Informed by the author's experience and investigations in technology and media since the 1990s, with emphasis on recent trends in data, mobile, networks, and the cloud, The Age of Convergence is a summation, through a collection of related essays, of what the author believes to be a major new economic era.
An attempt is made to render the abstract...

The basic premise: An industrial and consumer environment built upon ubiquitous connectivity, affordable and sophisticated computing, virtually unlimited data storage, and category convergences driven by the resulting information flows, will necessarily feature a different set of qualities (at every level) from those to which we had become accustomed in bygone times.
The chapters of the book isolate different aspects of the environment described - such as Fundamentals, Methods, Cycles, Leverage, Diffusion, Concentration, and others - presenting them with an emphasis on finance, strategy,...