But it is pretty clear that this convergence is real and irreversible.

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Either way, factories have to take advantage of new capabilities enabled by the increasingly rapid convergence of mobility, real-time complex data processing and analytics, cloud based services and machine-to-machine intelligence.

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Jamie Wimberly of the Consumer Energy Council of America, which represents the interests of smaller users of electricity, insists that the real gains will come with the impending convergence between the energy and telecoms sectors.

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He says HP is trying to position itself as convergence or cloud, mobility, real-time analytics, trends changing the industry like never before.

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Yet there remains a convergence of interests that gives peace a real chance.

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Look at the reasons for the narrowing of the gap between British and continental inflation and interest rates, and this convergence turns out to be more apparent than real.

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This green-induced convergence is also shaking up the competitive dynamics of the commercial real-estate market, creating opportunities for small companies to become big companies and big companies to become still bigger.

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The risk lies, rather, in something that the Lewinsky-Rwanda convergence shows: Clinton's willingness to use words as if he did not understand that they have real meanings and consequences, as if his intense, fleeting sincerity--his shoeshine and his smile, or his wagging finger, or sidelong laser glance, or his bitten lip: his sheer performance--were sufficient.

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