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Why WikiLeaks Matters More (And Less) than You Think

Harvard Business Review

Perhaps the most basic economic institution is GDP. When GDP's updated to reflect environmental costs, so must be corporate income statements — otherwise, the math simply won't work. The informational basis of the economy will be altered. From an economic perspective, its goal is much the same as India's updated GDP 2.0:

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The Industrial Era Ended, and So Will the Digital Era

Harvard Business Review

The digital revolution, for all of its charms, has had a fairly limited economic impact, compared with earlier technologies such as electricity and the internal combustion engine. Even now, information technologies make up only about 6% of GDP in advanced economies.