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The imminent merger of the computer and telecommunications worlds has long been predicted, and long been postponed. A new ingredient in the late 1990s is the explosive spread of the Internet. Are voice telephony, computer networks, and (in a new twist on a decades old theme) broadcast entertainment and information finally set to coalesce into a single, seamless, whole, with the Internet the glue pasting them together?
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Flamm, K. (1999). Digital Convergence?. In: Eisenach, J.A., Lenard, T.M. (eds) Competition, Innovation and the Microsoft Monopoly: Antitrust in the Digital Marketplace. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4407-0_12
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