How has convergence of past technologies shaped todays world and current technological advancements?
A vast amount of the world we live in results from such convergences. In the CAT scan example I mentioned earlier, we have a lifesaving diagnostic technique that depends on the combination of medical understanding, x-ray imaging, and high-speed computers that can work with very large amounts of data. The 9/11 example resulted from big-building technology and aviation coming together in ways their inventors never anticipated. And, of course, in most such cases we can’t point to a single person and say, “He invented big buildings” or “She invented airplanes.” Each of these phenomena is itself the result of earlier convergences. Similarly, the technologies leading current change, such as biotechnology, depend on earlier technologies coming together, as x-ray diffraction, computing, and several other fields did to decipher the structure of DNA and the genetic code. What is driving today’s innovation? What reasons do we have to expect direct communication links between the human brain and m
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