Authors:
Steven Pemberton
A question that is being asked a lot at the moment is: will devices converge to multi-functional single devices, or will families of single-function devices that can talk to each other emerge? Look around your house. How many devices do you have that have clocks in them? (Sorry, I mean of course: how many devices in your house have converged with clocks?) In my house: the oven, every radio, the hi-fi, the telephone, the thermostat, the thermometer (!), all the computers of course, the tea maker next to my bed, and on my person I have a mobile phone,…
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