Global supply networks shifted again, accommodating fragmentation and dispersion on both the supply and demand sides of their structure, a process sometimes called technologically enabled atomization: the division of supply networks into finer and finer parts, breaking the bonds of proximity and the resulting transaction-cost constraints that previously prevailed.
全球供给网络再一次发生了改变，以适应其结构中供给端和需求端的碎片化和分散化，这一过程有时被称为技术推动的自动化（technologically enabled atomization）：供给网络越分越精细，打破了此前普遍存在的相邻地域联系以及由此产生的交易成本约束。