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According to the U.S. Commerce Department, 1990 was the first year in which capital spending relevant to the information economy (computers and telecommunications) exceeded capital spending on the more traditional aspects of the industrial infrastructure (plant, equipment, physical transportation, etc.). Many scholars and business-oriented commentators have greeted these data as evidence that the U.S. economy is now firmly rooted in the information age, that a new “information economy” has replaced the industrial economy that dominated most of the twentieth century.
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Zuboff, S. (1996). The Emperor’s New Information Economy. In: Orlikowski, W.J., Walsham, G., Jones, M.R., Degross, J.I. (eds) Information Technology and Changes in Organizational Work. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-34872-8_2
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