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3.5.1. Powered Looms: The invention of the steam powered loom reduced the cost of making clothes. This put the traditional cottage industries out of business. But, it helped a new industry of manufactured cotton and clothes which created new kinds of jobs. This particular invention led to the Luddites, who saw the new power looms as destroying their livelihoods. The large mills which once dominated the towns of northern England have now closed down due to cheaper imports from Asia. As the mills have closed down, the local economy has been more geared towards the service sector and less towards manufacturing.

3.5.2. Mobile Technology

Mobile technology is a form of technology that is mostly used in cellular communication and other related aspects. It uses a form of platform where by many transmitters have the ability to send data at the same time on a single channel. The mobile technology is rapidly evolving;

over the years, its uses is becoming diverse and is gradually replacing some similar sources in the market that are also used for communication example; post office and land lines. The mobile technology has improved from a simple device used for phone call and messaging into a multi-tasking device used for GPS navigation, internet browsing, gaming, instant messaging tool etc.

Mobile technology was a mystery two decades ago but now, it has become something of necessity to both the rural and the urban areas. The mobile technology started as a remarkable achievement in the world of technology but now, it is transforming into user comfort technology due to its present diverse functionality. When the mobile was first introduced, it used to be basically for SMS, calls and games. But it has presently transformed into a digital world and has made life and business much easier; marketers now have the ability to sell their products with ease through mobiles technology. The mobile has made it possible for users to transfer files and other files through Blue tooth and WiFi.

The mobile is also equipped with internet connectivity, making it easy for the user to gain information and also to download files from the internet. Video call conferencing is another achievement that has come to reality through mobile technology. Businessmen and clients

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now have the channel to communicate even without seeing in person. Bankers depend solely on mobile technology on managing finances and stocks. Many business firms uses the mobile technology to increase their earnings through providing customers easiness to patronize their product through apps and websites for example, the cinema may create an app for ticket booking; railway travel tickets can be purchased from the internet without having to queue up to purchase it. The evolvement of mobile technology has made our life easier and also saves time and resources.

Since the arrival of the mobile, it has helped humans in many ways; mobile phones are very important in case of an emergency, they safe lives in case of accidents and other related issues.

Mobile technology is an innovation that promises huge productivity but at the same time a creative destruction.

3.5.3 Music Industry

The music industry has seen numerous technological changes which have led to the rise and fall of several companies. In early 1990s, the cassette started to overcome Vinyl, harming firms which relied on the manufacturer of Vinyl. But the early 1990s, the compact disc had started to replace the cassette. For a short period, the compact disc was very profitable for record labels and manufacturers, such as Phillips and Sony. From the early 2000s, electronic down loads wiped out the profitability of compact disc manufacturer and sale, creating a very different music industry dominated by digital downloads and new companies like Napster and Apple taking the place of other more traditional music companies.

3.5.4. Typewriter verses Computer

A few decades ago, there were typewriters, machines which could be described as keyboard connected to printers. Whatever was typed was immediately printed, without being visible on a screen first. A strange device indeed! Further back in history they were mechanical; later on they became electric, which made our fingers less muscular. Typewriters were operated by typists, a profession that did the most for female emancipation in Europe at the beginning of the twentieth century, such as Geneva, there were legions of female typists, which titled the

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gender balance to the great pleasure of the minority males. Typists were extremely powerful in every institution. One had to think a lot before you submitted your handwriting for final typing. While a typist would tolerate a few mistakes in the first version (it was possible to correct them with a special ink). Yet this forced us to think carefully and choose the most appropriate words and formulation for our draft.

However, the internet lets us keep things open as long as we need. It helps people to become even bigger procrastinators, beyond what is natural. Making choices is an important part of creativity. Ultimately, by closing one thought, sentence, page, or book, we are creating something new. In this way computers have not just helped us to do what we do anyway in an easier and simpler way. Computer has changed the way people think and how people create.

One of the main key attributes of computer is that everything typed is stored digitally, as opposed to an analog system, such as that on typewriters, where everything written is a mechanical transfer to paper. Typewriters waste paper and result in the user having to store a physical result. Digital documents can be extremely long and, because they are visual, storage space is virtually unlimited. This also makes computers more environmentally friendly, as they do not waste paper.

3.5.5. The Decline of Newspaper

The decline of newspapers is real. Since 1970 the number of dailies in America has declined by 20 percent. The Huffington posts are leading to Creative destruction of the traditional newspaper. The Christian Science monitor announces in January 2009 that it would no longer continue to publish a daily paper edition, but would be available on line daily and provides weekly print edition. At a national level in USA, employment in the newspaper business fell from 445,700 in 1990 to 2005, 100 in 2013.