Technological convergence

Technological convergence is the tendency for technologies that were originally unrelated to become more closely integrated and even unified as they develop and advance. For example, watches, telephones, television, computers, and social media platforms began as separate and mostly unrelated technologies, but have converged in many ways into an interrelated telecommunication, media, and technology industry.

"Convergent technology" redirects here. For the computer company, see Convergent Technologies.

NBIC (, Biotechnology, Information technology and Cognitive science)^[10]

Nanotechnology

GNR (, Nanotechnology and Robotics)^[11]

Genetics

GRIN (Genetics, Robotics, Information, and Nano processes)

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GRAIN (Genetics, Robotics, , and Nanotechnology)^[13]

Artificial Intelligence

BANG (, Atoms, Neurons, Genes)^[14]

Bits

Materials inspired by biology (such as in electronics)

DNA data storage

Omics

Traceable pharmaceutical packaging

More efficient

bioreactors

A 2010 citation analysis of patent data shows that biomedical devices are strongly connected to computing and mobile telecommunications, and that molecular bioengineering is strongly connected to several IT fields.^[15]^: 447

Bioconvergence is the integration of biology with engineering.^[16] Possible areas of bioconvergence include:^[16]^[17]

(the software equivalent of a converged device)

Computer multitasking

(can facilitate inclusion of non-converged devices)

Dongle

Digital rhetoric

Generic Access Network

History of science and technology

UMA Today

(IMS)

IP Multimedia Subsystem

Mobile VoIP

Next Generation Networks

Next generation network services

Post-convergent

Second screen

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Enterprise Systems and Technological Convergence: Research and Practice

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