Yes its true. Convergence is upon us. Now I can have a phone that has
on board an mp3 player, a camera, and a radio. And I can have an mp3
player that has my photo library on it and tells me the time in every
time zone in the world, and I can have a game platform that enables me
to play DVD's and I can use the USB port to put photos on the screen of
my TV and listen to the music from my mp3 device.

So what we have is this incredible increase in functionality of devices
so that they have primary, secondary and tertiary applications. The
interesting thing is that this is not leading to a decrease in the
number of devices. It is actually leading us to get more devices that
do more things. I am not sure if this is because the devices still
don't all talk to each other yet or because we just like to have more
new toys to show each other. I tend to think that while all the
technology has been converging, at the same time and in parallel, there
is a divergence of social and tribal vectors.

We are building new tribal relationships built around Skype and Ebay
and Linkedin. As we see greater interpolation of spin in traditional
media we are tending to look at websites that don't give us spun
stories (perhaps they give us counter-spin). Now we are entering an era
where we are more likely to trust the person who is a power seller on
Ebay than the government official who was appointed to run FEMA. Its an
amazing world we live in. What next?

My sense is that there will be a growing value attached to integrity of
the individual as we move forward. Imagine a society where real estate
agents for instance or securities analysts have rankings as to their
integrity in the same way that Ebay sellers and buyers do? A global
marketplace of integrity ranking…

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