What is Convergence?

When I was COO at Clarent, our discussion was about the impact of "convergence" where the internet and traditional telecommunications came together. Today convergence is a MUCH bigger trend and many of us do not see the changes as they are coming; green-tech is meeting the web in the networks and interconnects of real time exchange of ideas; semiconductors and software are becoming almost indistinguishable as sub-micron manufacturing processes essentially instantiates code; persistent memory is being converged in a cloud; security is synonymous with individuality and identity; relationships exist in n-dimensions rather than one-on-one. Sometime it is just too much, and other times it is just too little. Profoundly enough, the one factor that still needs to converge in a scalable way is teamwork, the fact that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts and that a new way of doing things with greater efficiency drives new things to discover and do. We are all converging and by default are able to know more about each other--the question remains can we KNOW each other in a profound new way. Can empathy be expressed technologically?