Consumers demonstrate stubbornly entrenched biases in their expectations of devices like TVs and phones. The future of home technology products depends not only on advances in components, but also on how people's expectations for them evolve. We would agree with this statement based exclusively on the current Baby Boomer generation. However, we would argue that this analysis is static. There is another dynamic here.
Generational shifts are fluid.
A new generation even larger than the Baby Boomers is poised to fulfill the Gilder and Negroponte digital prophecy. And, they already walk the walk and talk the talk. For the first time ever, the children of an entire generation have a deeper understanding and comfort with technology than their parents. It may be true that human behavior resists convergence, but a whole new generation who already buy in to convergence are coming of age. We haven't seen this intersection of technology and demographics before.