Internet: The Wired Home

When the Web emerged in the early nineties, pundits wasted no time in starting to talk about the merging of different media – the phenomenon known as convergence. Only problem is, there was none. As is so often the case, people’s communication and entertainment habits tend to stick, and new media take their place alongside existing ones; they don’t replace them. In fact, the convergence has been slow in coming, excruciatingly so for business sectors depending on rapid change, such as the computer and telecommunications industries.