In the past, people had to buy:
- Phones
- Computers
- Cameras
- Prints of pictures
- Televisions
- VHS / CDs / DVDs
- Radios
- Alarm Clocks
- Typewriters
- Newspapers
- Video Game Consoles (and games)
- Video Cameras
- Envelopes, Stamps, labels

They had to pay specialized people to:
- Book travel for them
- Find information
- Carry important mail, or other courier services
- Investigate potential employees, or find lost friends
- Prepare their taxes for them
- Collect and analyze the news

(I could go on)

But the question is: People are buying less and less of these pieces of technology, and services, from the free market. They are opting instead for one decent mobile phone to do all that for them with convenience. Is this one reason we are in the economic turmoil we are in right now?

Are our cell phones killing our economy?

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How have classical communications theories been proven wrong or attitudes toward them changed as a result of media convergence (i.e. iPhones and laptops)?
How has media/technological convergence effected ideas about classical communications theories?

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