Convergence

Convergence is a crazy topic and scary one to discuss. What ever happened to the good old days when friends used to get together and plan to go watch a movie in theatres. That’s all changed with the converging of technology nowadays they hype is not about planning for a movie we its all about when the movie will be released to the web or be available for purchase online. Theatres are going thru a crisis and have choice to make weather to stay open or go out business because all the movies being able to be streamed online days after it is released. Many theatres that had been around for years have been shutting their doors or being bought out by the major cinemas like AMC or Regal. Everything that we would have to wait for or must get is all being available at our fingertips. Convergence is making it easier people to access things. Newspapers companies are slowly all switching to digital paper, now this can be a good thing and a bad thing. Good in the sense that we are saving paper which in turn saves paper, bad because people that would be hired are probably not in demand anymore. Online shopping has forced many stores to close multiple locations. Macys just went through a recent situation where they shut down 1000s of physical locations due to the increase demand for online shopping. Convergence is good thing, but we need to analyze all sides of it before we make decision on weather its good or not.    

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