In spite of a lot of talk about digital disruption that stage is yet to fully take shape, though we are not very far away. Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) have converged to give us super technology. Future possibilities galore though fears also exist. Decision support systems are improving as a result of business analytics used for crunching massive chunks of data. Without AI, a lot of these will be hampered, so will be self learning platforms. The Internet of Things (IoT) also uses AI based technologies to integrate seamlessly the countless bots across the planet that enable top notch communication and data collection. One of the top innovation hubs, Apple has always believed that co-evolution of technologies is always a better idea than one off inventions as the latter do not allow scaling to benefit substantial number of people. Convergence on the other hand takes into consideration several developments and trends in the market to develop something worthy.

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