In his 1969 book The Coming of Post-Industrial Society, American scholar Daniel Bell predicted that the worldwide advent of the knowledge-based economy would begin an era of intensified competition and a rearrangement of the distribution of wealth.
1969 年，美國學者丹尼爾・貝爾以《後工業時代的來臨》一書，預言全球若邁向知識經濟時代，將是競爭激化、財富重新分配的時代。