HDTV and HRI - Avoiding the Collision and Applying Perspective to a Convergence

That there is a convergence of television, telecommunications, and computing is not in doubt. It is already quite visible, its advance is global - and inexorable. Its inevitability is spurred by the insatiably expanding demands of worldwide complex, sophisticated, and information-based societies. Technologies are bound together not because of any esoteric elegance of their engineering, but rather, because system solutions - of ever-increasing sophistication - are being sought for a vast multiplicity of human and institutional needs. So, this discussion begins squarely based on the intractable reality that a convergence is already well underway. The question is: To what degree should technologists intervene in the “management” of the convergence?

Published

1992-02

Content type

Original Research

DOI

10.5594/M00723

ISBN

978-1-61482-941-6