Irving Wladawsky-Berger, VP of technical strategy and innovation at IBM, has a post up on AlwaysOn about how the Internet is finally delivering on the long-held promise of convergence:

"There is no question in my mind that convergence is now coming to digital entertainment and consumer electronics. Consumer electronics products are being built using common hardware components from the computer industry, for example, microprocessors, memory, storage, and so on, and most of their capabilities are now being designed as software. The drive toward open standards to link all the components in the home parallels what has been going on in IT for the last 10 to 15 years, and without a doubt, broadband Internet is emerging as the major communications and content distribution platform into the home."

While most R/WW readers already know all this, the article is a nice summation of where we're at circa 2006 with digital media.