Keeping the U.S. Computer and Communications Industry Competitive: Convergence ofComputing, Communication and Entertainment

摘要

Digital convergence-combining computing, communications, and entertainment-istaking shape in the form of new kinds of business and consumer products (goods and services) and new business ventures and alliances. Digital convergence is generating a host of economic regulatory, legal, cultural, and social issues. The report puts the technological and business trends associated with digital convergence into a larger framework. It seeks to advance what must be a long-term process of relating commoditization and convergence of digital electronics, communications, and entertainment products to changes in the nature of the economy and the social fabric. The intention is to provide a sense of the scope and the pace of changes transforming a set of important industries, identify some