Convergence:

The Intersection of ingenuity and versatility

Throughout the course of the class, the idea of different studies of thought and innovations coming together and forming the internet and the world wide web has been key. The world wide web as we know it is an entity constantly evolving with each original thought someone shares and the ideas that spark from them. not only is it growing in terms of content but also from a technological standpoint as new hardware and software are constantly being applied to make it run faster, work harder, and become more intelligent. This of course is not just true in todays standards but has been true since its conception as the internet's evolution has been made possible by not just by one idea (though some ideas have been essential) but by many ideas and technologies coming together. Whether these new technologies are generated for the purpose of  users going online or even bringing the internet into the real world, the internet continues to interact with the individual in seemingly impossible ways. Some of these technologies include what has and is being discovered in computer science such as  Turing's first computing machines and Burners-Lee's fundamental HTTP and TCP/IP to what is being created now at places like Microsoft and Google. Other such technologies include communication such as Bells early forms of telecommunication, leading to the use of cables to allow multiple computing machines to communicate. This of course was improved upon with the use of radio waves and satellites, each needing an understanding in Physics. Today, these and many more disciplines are being implemented and improved upon to make the internet what we need it to be all made possible by Convergence.