Monopoly

It’s surprising to me how much technology runs today’s society. Producers of such advancing technologies are becoming more influential in our lives; it’s as if they can monopolize the informational distribution of the era. When I read the article of Malcolm Gladwell “Priced to Sell”, it amazed me how Amazon gave the Dallas Morning News such an undignified contract to prescribe their newspaper on amazons Kindle. Technology is occupying much of the financial resources, that journalism has no money flow within their contributions to the informational era, and what is most shocking is they are the main people behind the publishing.

                Technologies doesn't only get their money by monopolizing the industries of publishers, but they have also learned the ways of manipulating their consumers. For instance, this got me thinking about the iphone’s manipulations. You may think that the iphone is an extraordinary device that can keep you organized, and make your day to day life a breeze with all its remarkable functions, and you may be right. However, there are draw backs to this as well. You can think of the phone as an advertisement all in itself. The iphone may have the abilities to do all these things, but many of the applications required for your phone to operate according to what you need, you must buy these applications off itunes. It’s just another seller for the technology "monopoly".
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