The information economy is the economy of post-industrial society, namely information society.

信息经济是后工业社会，即信息社会的经济。

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The revolution of knowledge economy which is guided by knowledge and information technology has been challenging the traditional industrial economy.

以知识、信息技术为先导的知识经济正在对传统产业经济提出挑战。

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The core of the industrial structure of the knowledge economy is the information industry, the core of which is the network technique.

知识经济的产业结构的核心是信息产业，而信息产业的核心是网络技术。

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What we can be sure is that the growth of sophisticated financial systems will continue to play an important role in fashioning the changes in all of our lives, including funding (often speculatively) the technologies that have transformed our world already from an agricultural to an industrial economy, and are now perhaps shaping the first post-industrial information economy.

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We took an agricultural economy and transformed it into an industrial economy, then into an information economy.

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Because we are in an information economy, rather than an industrial one, pursuing growth of industrial jobs today is as misguided as trying to preserve manual labor and farm jobs was in the 1960s and 1970s.

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