Though the capital uses digitalizing and networking of information as a means of the value proliferation in an economic process of the reality and the cyberspace, it brings new problems and contradictions. Digitalizing and networking of information facilitated an overseas transfer of the immediate production process and offered a technical base that promoted the globalization. The division of the immediate production process promoted the de-industrialization by bringing an overseas transfer of production. And digitalization and networking of information magnify anarchy of production, and make the system of monopoly unstable. First, the order system based on the demand forecast that exists inside the SCM (Supply Chain Management) system will generate probably the chain and the accumulation of overproduction once a demand forecast becomes excessive, and increases instability of production. The manufacturing enterprise cannot acquire an accurate sales information in the circulation process because information systems are not connected between different enterprises. The manufacturing enterprise plans production based on an excessive sales forecast at the boom period. Therefore, anarchy of production cannot be removed by the SCM system and the POS (Point of sales) system. Second, As for the information and communication industry, the monopoly is always threatened by the obsolescence of the product technology and the appearance of the alternate product in the innovation by scientific labor and technical labor. For instance, though the Internet Explorer of Microsoft monopolizes the market, as for the browser technology of the Internet, its rule is being threatened because of the recent appearance of
Mozilla
Firefox and Opera. In the search technique of the Internet, it is being criticized that Google tries to control a market, and to monopolize an information. However, if the P2P technology is used, information on personal computers all over the world can be retrieved. Therefore, the market control of Google also has the possibility to be threatened by an innovation. In the above-mentioned point, monopoly in the digital capitalism is different from monopoly based on the heavy and chemical industries. Because information revolution changed the scientific and technological labor into the productive capacity, the instability of monopoly was brought. Scientific and technological labor of the individual breaks down existing monopoly. And, individual research and development in the telecommunication area has come to the stage where it has a big influence for an economic process. That's the case with the development of the P2P technology and the development of Linux, etc. At the stage of digital capitalism, it is possible to say that an age has come when scientific and technological labor of the individual provide the productive capacity in parallel with the accumulation of the science by governments and large-scale enterprises. The situation that scientific and technological labor of the individual became basic of the productive capacity has changed the relation between monopoly and competition in the contemporary capitalism.
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