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The Emerging
Digital Economy II
Revolutions, by their nature, create
new and unanticipated opportunities, challenges
and risks for those
caught up in them. We all find ourselves in the
midst of a technological revolution propelled
by digital
processing. All around us, in ways and forms
we cannot fully appreciate, new digitally-based
economic
arrangements are changing how people work together
and alone, communicate and relate, consume and
relax. These changes have been rapid and widespread,
and often do not fit the established categories
for
understanding economic developments. As a result,
early efforts to take the measure of these changes
have
often seemed to be inventories of what is not
yet known.
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The Economics of
Y2K and the Impact on the United States
The Economics of Y2K and the Impact
on the United States assesses the economic implications of Y2K-related
issues on the U.S. economy. The report reviews how firms and
governments should be expected to react in the face of known
Y2K problems and compares these results with available progress
reports on Y2K readiness and other published Y2K economic assessments.
The report finds that Y2K is having an impact on US business
activity well in advance of the actual 1999 to 2000 changeover,
including almost $100 billion in expenditures by businesses and
public agencies over several years, to hunt down and correct
error-prone technologies. The report concludes that competitive
forces are pushing governments and firms to do what is necessary
to prevent major Y2K problems and, as a result, those problems
will not be of sufficient size or scope to have more than a transient
effect on overall economic growth.
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