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Innovation Often Comes From Convergence
Innovation can arrive when several capabilities become ready at the same time. One is smaller, another cheaper, a third reliable enough to use outside the laboratory. A combination that once seemed impractical becomes workable.
That is convergence. It draws attention to timing: an idea may be familiar, yet the conditions for making it useful have changed. The question is not only what must be invented next. It is what has become possible because separate advances can now meet.