Volti, Unit 2 information, chapters 8-10 • Work in Nonindustrial Societies

• Technology and Jobs• Technological Change and Life on the

Job

Reminder:Guilds / Killer Apps

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United States• CD prices up 16% since 1997 • 14% fewer new titles since 1999• Overall CD revenue down 13%

since 1999

• Down an additional 25% last year

• Big Music’s Broken Record

United States, cont.• Piracy est. at $1 billion

loss to recording industry; no end in sight

• CD reaching the end of its life cycle, much like LP, cassette, and 8-track tape did

© CNN, 2002

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© Harvey Danger, 2005

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Bottom Line

Fewer “big”Artists

Less Money

Killer App

Great Destroyer

Winners & Losers

More of one,

Loss of another