Blended, Converged, Married Technologies

What do these words have in common? In technological terms they imply the path that technology is heading down. Technology is going in so many directions, impacting our lives in ways we don’t realize. One technology marrying another, take for example, cell phones. Cells aren’t just phones anymore.

In an article about the 3GSM World Congress held in Cannes last week game phones will be the next technology wave to hit the market integrating music and entertainment. The next generation phones will blend technologies together to give Ipods competition. Cell phones have the capability to surf the web, take pictures, send email, download movies to watch, download mp3’s, watch TV and instant message; now that’s blending, converging, and marrying technologies.

The Asian Market is a big fan of merging media into 1 device. Macromedia has now gone mobile with the development of Flash Lite. Macromedia is working with Nokia in Asia to use Flash Lite on their phones.

What about Podcasting? This NY Times article talks about marrying radio broadcasting, computers and Ipods to play-back pre-recorded webcasts at your convenience. Very similar to do what TiVo did for the TV is now possible with audio.

Blending, Converging, Marrying –same destination; technology taking a new path that will never be the same afterwards. Think about the possibilities!