Convergent Tech - AI is an Ingredient, Not a Meal | BCS London Branches

Speaker: Jeremy Dalton - Founder, XRHQ.com Synopsis: We are witnessing the largest concentration of investment in a single technology in modern history. The assumption underpinning this bet is that AI is categorically different. This talk challenges that assumption. Transformative innovation has always emerged from convergence: the collision of ideas, techniques, and technologies from unrelated domains. The printing press combined winemaking, metallurgy, and chemistry. The telescope emerged when glassmaking met spectacle craftsmanship. Surgical stitching borrowed from seamstresses and leatherworkers. This talk makes the case for convergent thinking: not against AI, but against the mindset that mistakes one ingredient for an entire meal.