Technological Convergence

- Technological convergence is when a number of technologies all comes together in the same product

PROS -

• Good for the consumers because it can do many things at once.
• Makes it easier instead of having loads of different pieces of technology.
• Saves time - Gives the ability to multitask

CONS - 

• Technological convergence can be extremely expensive and unaffordable.
• The quality - for example the camera quality of a phone compared to a professional camera will not be as good. 
• Ruins relationships
• Eats time
• Extremely addictive

1. Explain convergence technologies from your grandparents point of view?

In my grandparents era, they didn't have much technological convergence such as a smart phone. When they were younger they had to buy all of their technology separately. For example if they wanted to take pictures, they had to go and buy a camera to take pictures and another camera to record videos.  Even to make phone calls before any type of mobile phone came out they had to use either a home phone or a telephone box to make calls. They could not text anyone until a bit later on when the first mobile phone came out. 

Technology convergence has evolved massively over time and has been evolving continually since around 1995. 

2. Explain how digital convergence has affected society?

Digital convergence has a massive effect on society. Smart phones have so many positives however also has so many negatives. Mobile phones are found to be extremely addictive and they tend to make people a lot more unsociable. This can often lead to relationships being ruined and family time being wrecked. Also work and family time tends to merge together when the smart phone is involved all of the time whilst being at home. It has also affected society in good ways such as saving time, multi tasking and being able to save lives by using the internet to gain knowledge about medical problems. Smart phones make everything in life a lot quicker and a lot easier, information is easily accessed instantly. However this is bad because people tend to make excuses and individuals don't have as much of a get out.