I agree that the Carey chapters are extremely useful in raising enduring questions about convergence, especially value-laden claims made about every new generation of communication technology that are framed as non-political. Alan Liu's "Laws of Cool" does a great job of historicizing the evolution of communication technology, in particular the politics of design and the mission of the humanities in a digital era, in a theoretically sophisticated manner. Shaun Moore's "Media/Theory: Thinking about Media and Communications" raises many fundamental questions about interaction without falling into a deterministic framework. The "Digital Bohemia" chapter in Richard Lloyd's "Neo-Bohemia: Art and Commerce in the Postindustrial City" grounds convergence in a specific social context, adding ethnographic detail along the theoretical lines of Castells and Saskia Sassen that students near Chicago might especially appreciate. John Monberg