If you are wondering whether crypto or AI is bigger story this year, and why VR/AR/IoT seem to have fallen behind, you're missing signs of powerful combinatorics (not convergences) emerging.
Think AlphaBoston robots fighting over cryptokitty powered PokekmonGo
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I'll hazard a try via example: HH GPS devices *converged* w phones in smartphones. Smartphones use the internet but didn't *converge* with it. However *combination* of the two is what allows Uber to come into existence.
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Yeah, you're both right. Al Ries' book on positioning has a discussion of this. People keep looking at examples like "clock+radio=clock radio" in isolation and missing the larger mixing, matching and combinatorial divergence process going on
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Sort of like whole is greater than sum of its parts?
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That's an aspect. Also potential is more than embodied by sum of current realizations.



