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In their book Convergence of Knowledge, Technology, and Society Roco et al. (2013; see also NRC 2014) argued that the history of science has been one of swings between divergence and convergence. In the divergence phase specialization flourishes, with limited interaction between specialties, while in the convergence phase the barriers between the specialties begin to weaken, and science advances through the sharing of expertise and interest between specialties.
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Goodchild, M.F. (2020). Foreword II: Convergence and Synthesis. In: Ye, X., Lin, H. (eds) Spatial Synthesis. Human Dynamics in Smart Cities. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52734-1_2
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