From: utzoo!decvax!duke!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!hplabsb!soreff
Newsgroups: net.misc
Title: Re: Information Economy
Article-I.D.: hplabsb.1304
Posted: Sat Jan 22 10:12:49 1983
Received: Mon Jan 24 05:56:16 1983
References: utcsrgv.909

Does Masuda propose that information products will replace housing, food,
energy, transportation, and so on? I could see how the information
intensive products might continue to grow in sales volume when the
conventional markets have saturated, but this only happens AFTER the
bulk of the population is well-housed, well-fed, etc. I don't see why
the non-information products sector should shrink in industrialized
nations. I also don't see why the existence of information products will
make satisfying undeveloped nation's preferences any easier. Calculators
don't substitute for indoor plumbing. -Jeffrey Soreff (hplabsb!soreff)