Amazon Artifact Essay

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The computer innovation that is represented by my computational artifact is Amazon.com. Amazon’s intended purpose is to sell different items through electronic commerce (Hall). Its function is to also serve as a middleman between retailers and their customers (Hall). My computational artifact helps to explain the effects of Amazon.com by showing just how much their sales revenue has increased from 2004 to 2016 and further the increase of use of electronic commerce. This helps to prove that Amazon is effecting society, because many people are turning to e-commerce, primarily Amazon, for their shopping rather than going out to shop (Statista.com). To begin with, I first did research to find data about the yearly sales revenue for Amazon.com in order to make a graph. I ended up using data from Statista.com by an anonymous author. After that, I used a website called Piktochart.com. Piktochart.com is an online poster-making tool where presentations and graphs can be made. From there, I made my graph by inputting the data from Statista.com and then wrote a brief history about Amazon.com to help provide some background information about the company. Lastly, I saved it as a .pdf file. …show more content…

Many people have extremely busy lives and do not have the time to go out and shop for their necessities. Amazon allows society to simply order whatever they want from their electronic device, and get the product(s) shipped within a few days for a low price (Investopedia.com). One harmful effect this innovation has on society is how it puts countless number of small retailers out of business due to the fact they cannot compete with the accessibility and low prices that Amazon has to offer (Investopedia.com). By putting out these small businesses, employment for young or unskilled workers is also taken away

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