“The great convergence”: visionary illusion or megatrend?

Emerald - Tập 4 Số 1 - Trang 36-42 - 2002
Irving H.Buchen1
1Irving H. Buchen is Professor of Business Management at Berne University, Wolfeboro Falls, New Hampshire, USA. He is also Director of International Educational Consultants, and Senior Research Associate of HR Partners.

Tóm tắt

Megatrends are historical nexuses which gather and focus both obvious and subtle sub‐trends as a contribution to the history of future ideas. A substantive candidate of the twenty‐first century is “convergence”. That pursuit of “the unity of all knowledge” involves the integration, synthesis and confluence of different and often opposing intellectual concepts; and of seminal research developments and academic disciplines. Three major components and sets of authors are identified and examined: the technology of theology; the increasing interconnectedness of social, political and economic forces; and the interfacing of scientific, humanistic and spiritual domains.

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Emerald

Tập 4 Số 1

36-42

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