Emerging technologies and technology convergences

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Ambient computing, which involves moving computing power from the desktop and embedding it in everyday objects, is supposed to help make this happen. "We need to translate technologies into things that people like and understand," says Irene McWilliam, a senior manager in design research at Dutch electronics giant Philips and coordinating partner for the E.U.'s Connected Community research projects.


Ambient computing 


Technological Convergence: What Nicholas Negroponte labeled the transformation of "atoms to bits," the digitization of all media content. When words, images and sounds are transformed into digital information, we expand the potential relationships between them and enable them to flow across platforms.



The Future 

As the song says, "the future's so bright, I gotta wear shades." Many of today's wireless limitations will go away as advances in bandwidth, protocols and hardware come to light. >>