A ideia de convergência está morta?

«Arturo Artom, founder and CEO of Netsystem in Milan, concurred that the 1990s notion of convergence—the idea of a single box containing a television, computer, and telephone—is dead. “The future is making niche devices that perform tasks exceptionally well,” Artom said. At the same time, Warrior added, mobile phones serve as a “sharp multiplier” of access devices as increased digital functionality is integrated into them.Many new cell phones come bundled with features such as digital picture-taking, e-mail, MP3 music playback, video, and so on. Those kinds of feature add-ons are likely to continue in the years ahead.» (LAsica, 2007: 15)