p. 224:
Convergence is the mutual remediation of at least
three important technologies -- telephone, televison
and computer -- each of which is a hybrid of technical,
social and economic practice,
and each of which offers its own path to immediacy.
The telephone offers the immediacy of voice or the interchange of
voices in real-time.
Television is a point-of-view technology that promises
immediacy through its insistent real-time monitoring of the
world.
The computer's promise of immediacy comes through
the combination of three-dimensional graphics, automatic
(programmed) action, and an interactivity that television
can not match.
As they come together, each of these is trying to
absorb the others and promote its own version of immediacy.
