"If the government's money goes to cement the current technology in place, we will have a very hard time innovating...." Kenneth D. Mandl, and Isaac S. Kohane, "No Small Change for the Health Information Economy", www.nejm.org 3/28/2009 In the early 1990s, when "convergence" was becoming the buzzword of the telecommunications industry, I and some colleagues visited the editors of the Economist to discuss the industry's future.