Technological convergence

Technological Convergence is the tendency for different technological systems to work together performing similar task.

This means that new technologies are created to take over from past technologies and perform the same task but in a more advanced manner. For example people “used” to listen to the music on the radio but now technological convergence have evolved and majority of the people use their phones to listen to music

Past technologies were only designed to handle a minority of task.

·         For example a telephone was only able to receive and transmit calls.

·         A television set was only designed to show images and sound through analogue station signal.

Technological Convergence has improved many products such as

·         Phones

·         Accessories (game consoles

·         Web

·         Social interaction

They have improved to become more convenient for the 21^st century.

Advantages for Technological convergences:

1.       They will have more advertisement – they can advertise it anywhere

2.       They can promote their films-by game based

Disadvantages for technological convergence

·         It is more expensive

·         They are not guaranteed that the customers will buy the product just because it have better quality

·         There are cheaper alternatives for people to make their own media work. eg music video.