CONVERGING TRENDS


Big technology is coming to revolutionize how the school bus industry drives


WRITTEN BY SEAN GALLAGHER | SEAN@STNONLINE.COM


T 44School Transportation News • NOVEMBER 2016


he technological advances in the last century have shaped the modern world. In the last 50 years alone, the level of achievement made by technology has been insurmountable compared to the millennia before. Computers that once filled an entire warehouse now can be worn on a person’s


wrist or be injected directly into the body. Te smartphone most people absentmindedly lug around in their pockets has more computing power than the operating system that took the astronauts to the moon. It’s called Moore’s Law, which was based off an observation made in 1965 by Gordon Moore, a co-founder of Intel. Moore saw that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit had doubled every each since the invention of the integrated circuit in the 1950s. Moore’s Law, simply put, states that the processor speeds—or overall processing power for computers—will double every two years. In other words, with each passing year, computers are only to get smaller and faster. Tis process allows for technology to be more accessible to the general population as prices


drop, expanding its use into all aspects of life. As technology evolves and the uses grow, different systems have a tendency to join forces, so to speak. Defined as technological convergence, the idea is that as previous separate technologies will


start to share resources and interact with each other synergistically. Technological convergence is essentially the attempt to combine a number of systems or programs into one user-friendly


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