What do you call networked devices that talk to vast data repositories and are controlled by software interfaces on devices other than the device at hand? That's what trivergence is all about. The iPod Shuffle is an example.
Author of "The Duality of Technology", the first paper I saw that looked at IT adoption (in particular groupware adoption) through the lens of structuration theory.
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