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Well, he didn't say it. He kind of looked at me and gave me some stupid reply like saying "hey hotshot, if you're so good, you should be teaching the class". Same thing, if you ask me.
Of course, I look like an ass in front of the class because superficial analysis tells you that technologies are, in fact, merging into single devices. I mean, cell phones have photo and video cameras, iPods can play music and video, the Blackberry can hook up with the Internet, etc.
However, if you look at it in depth (and you don't have to be a rocket scientist to know this), they are actually diverging. I mean, are the photographers from FTV shooting with cell phones? Don't think so. Have book sales declined in favor of e-books? Nope. Have you seen TVs with incorporated DVD players? I haven't, probably because of the same reason TVs with VCRs didn't last long, even though it makes perfect (common) sense to incorporate them together.
Al Ries wrote down in one of his many books that alarm clocks come with radios. When you listen to the radio, do you actually use your alarm clock to do it?
Everyone says: "oh look how everything is coming together" and things like: "soon we'll be able to do everything from a single device".
Truth is, that is not going to happen any time soon because deep down, we don't want it to happen.
Life would be too boring with a single gadget that does it all.
Besides, think of paintings and photography. When photography was invented, its main task was to capture reality as accurate as possible, a task that had been assigned to paintings long, long ago. What did the artists do? They started using paintings to represent other things. That's when surrealism and abstract art, among others, were born and made paintings a necessity again.
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