Over the last three decades and more, the development of capitalist society in the US and Europe has apparently confirmed his predictions. Moreover, since the late 1990s, the rapid growth in Internet technology has spurred global competition, and increased the penetration of a new variant of capitalism across national boundaries.
倏忽三十幾年過去，歐美資本主義社會的發展似乎印證了他的預言；而 1990 年代後期，網路科技助長了全球競爭，也增強了新變種資本主義穿梭國界的力道。