Convergence makes a comeback

We'd all but banned the use of the word "convergence" from Engadget (not that it was hard, there as there haven't been many occasions to use it these past nine days), but over at newmediazero Nigel Walley makes a case for resuscitating that little piece of technospeak. He argues that the late Nineties conventional wisdom about convergence (like that the TV was the new PC) had it all backwards, and that it's clear now that it's actually the PC that is the new TV. Look at the evidence: TVs haven't become a particularly popular way to access the Internet, but whether it's hooking up your set to a hard drive-based digital video recorder (which is really just a customized PC) or watching live TV feeds over the Internet, he says it's clear that it's the PC
that is becoming more like a TV than the other way around. Now of course none of this is news to anyone with a TiVo or a Media Center PC or who has ever tried to read a website on a television screen, but we think we know what he's getting at: convergence isn't a dirty word anymore. 

[Via TechDirt]