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new economy

the new, digital economy driven by industrial information technology, much of which is related to telecommunications such as the Internet-a technology that, many argue, has a huge potential to transform the engineering industry. In the new economy, production and distribution systems are automated, computer-based systems. The old economy, classical or traditional, is undergoing sweeping changes through the speed and efficiency brought by applications of information technology and the Internet.

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