The recent spread of bad economic times around the globe, like the spread of a plague, cannot be divorced from the changing information-era economic model. The dramatic increase in information-intensive industry, and changes in manpower demand, costs, price and market structure all influence the global economic stage.
近年來全球傳染病似的不景氣現象，與資訊時代經濟型態的改變絕對脫不了關係──資訊密集產業的大量增加、人力需求、成本、價格與市場結構的改變，在在影響著全球經濟舞台。