In the 30 years since his book came out, Taiwan has experienced booming economic growth, become a highly capitalized and highly technologized IT powerhouse, and offshored its factories in response to global competition, the net result of which is that Schumacher's words seem even more profound than before.
30 年前英國經濟學家修馬克在《小即是美》一書中如此大聲疾呼，走過高經濟成長，走過資本與技術密集的資訊大國風光，也走過全球化競爭後大量關廠遷廠的台灣，回過頭再來思索這句話，更有深意。