Information Monopoly: The It Revolution, As The Threshold Of Contemporary Capitalism Changes

Information technology revolution is the most significant science and technology contemporarily- the Industrial Revolution, which took place between the end of 1940 and the beginning of 1990 in the United States and transformed the human society with unprecedented intensity. On technical and social interaction perspective, that information technology revolution occurred in a complex process which interacted with society. American society has created a good "ecological environment" for information technology revolution.Through the "reconstruction" of information technology revolution, contemporary capitalism is called information capitalism. In the birth of information capitalism, it came into being information monopoly. Information monopoly refers to a sort of monopoly which excludes core technology and makes full use of its market power and implements through abusing of intelletual property rights to obtain huge profits. Information monopoly is the most noteworthy phenomenon in the field of micro-economy of contemporary capitalism and has a great effect on the capitalism. The incisive dissection of information monopoly provides scientific understandings of contemporary capitalism with a unique "Windows"Information monopoly originated in the information economy and flourished in the 1980, maturing in 1990. The nature of information monopoly is monopoly of knowledge in the form of a monopoly IT-core technology. The development of information monopoly is just the family history of global computer software giant Microsoft and CPU chip giant Intel. Their industry representative was formed by Intel and Microsoft Wintel alliance. The impact of "alternative information monopoly" worthy to be warned gradually caused general worry of the international community. Information monopoly may be a important tool which controls a huge say in Internet of US in the information age."Information monopoly model of the ecological environment," reveals the unique survival information monopoly environment, it is the environment from the information monopoly of the industry, product and legal environment based on three elements. Information monopolists skillfully use legal tactics and doing their utmost to suppress competition and business strategy against consumers. To this end, it frequently encounters initiated by American and European countries Japan and South Korea antitrust investigations and litigation.Information monopolists skillfully use legal strategies and do everything in business strategy to suppress competition and infringe the rights of consumers. So it frequently encountered antitrust investigations and litigation initiated by the United States, European countries, South Korea and Japan.Information monopoly bred "endogenous opposition"which agaist their own in the development process. This was the "free software" movement and triggered the "open source software" movement. The former strongly opposed to "propietary software" system of capitalism represented by Microsoft, which was called Utopian socialism of "cyberspace" in the "information capitalism age". The latter attempted to explore a "free software" operation on a commercial road and it succeeded. This is the ideal compromise in the reality inevitable result.The nature of information monopoly is the special embodiment of capitalist production relations entering information age. Allowing the proliferation of information monopoly, economic justice and even social justice would be a significant hazard.. Futhermore, as a super-economy, a strong "strategic weapon", the information monopoly can also be widely used in the national interest.Besides the new changes of contemporary capitalism monolopy on information in this micro-level economic phenomena, but also reflects in the meso and macro- all other areas. Under the "reconstruction" of information technology paradigm, the performance of all kinds of new changes of information capitalism is multi-dimensional, quantitative display of "creative destruction". What's more, "digital divide" represents a new type of polarization of contemporary capitalism. Exploration of measurement method and quantization display will help understand the uneven development of contemporary capitalism and the inherent law of hidden crisis.The relationship between information capitalism and socialism with Chinese characteristics is the most complex one between two different systems in information age. The features can be summarized as'drawing lessons from each other and complicated development coexisted in the same time'. Socialism with Chinese characteristics and information capitalism has begun to have a close relation and interaction since the late 1970, the advancement of which conformed to the principle of Marxism concerning to the relationship between inevitability and contingency of general law in the social development. The most important factor which promotes this complex relationship is the development of social productivity that became more global, which is the inevitable result development of'world history'pointed out by Marx in his early years.Compared with the traditional capitalism, contemporary capitalism has indeed undergone a number of conspicuous new changes. But the nature of capitalism remains. Marxism reveals mode of production of capitalism has two features remained as before. First, its products are commodities, say, commodity production is ubiquitous. Second, the starting point and the ending of social prodution are the extraction of surplus value.Interpreting the new changes of contemporary capitalism by using Marx's "two inevitable" and "two never will", we have to see that "two inevitable" reveals the objective trend that socialism will replace capitalism. While "two never will" highlights the long-term and arduoud nature of different social modes of production turnover. Overall, there is still considerable room for development for contemporary capitalism. The basic attitude of Marxism is using changing view in capitalism changes themselves.Information technology revolution has opened human economic and social changes in the information course. Studying the information process with Chineses characteristics by using measurement method provided by ORBILOM, we can compare it with the gap between information capitalism and the features of China's chase. It is clear to see that China, as the world's biggest developing country, has lauched a trasnormal path of development of information technology since 1990. It is road of socialism with Chineses characteristics leads this.Contemporary capitalism took place great changes under the transformation of information technology revolution. Co-existed in the same historical time and place, socialism with Chineses characteristics is also confronting the challenges of information technology revolution as a typical repesentative of the contemporary new scientific and technology revolution. China's national policy to meet these challenges is walking the road of independent innovation with Chineses characteristics and building innovative country.