Feb96 Jan96 Everyone, Anytime, Anywhere The next step for technology is universal access. But as the 21st century approaches, sophisticated digital technologies and the promise of exploding bandwidth are combining to create a third kind of convergence one that will change our lives more dramatically than anything we ve seen so far. We live in an age where voice, data, and video are just bits, ones and zeros to be pushed down the broadest pipe or around the most accommodating slice of spectrum.
Bits are agnostic.
But this is only the start. Combine digital technology with advanced software, smaller and more powerful microprocessors, and exponential growth in fiber and wireless bandwidth, and you get something far more useful seamless, universal connectivity. This turns convergence on its head. Virtual convergence will take the power on your desktop and make it available wherever you want it. But to help avoid information overload, it will do this intelligently.