Technology convergence

In «Mechanization and the Record» (1939) Bush described a machine that would combine lower level technologies to achieve a higher level of organized knowledge (like human memory processes). Shortly after the publication of this essay, Bush coined the term ‘memex’ in a letter written to the editor of Fortune magazine." [W.r.d18]
* See: Singularity; Technogenesis.
* See more generally: Convergence.