Matter matters less and less. Physical products will become less and less a factor in the Information Age. Intellectual assets which can be digitized will become more valuable than cash, land, buildings, hard goods, etc.
Information is much more powerful and cost-effective than physical products.
Companies will increasingly be valued for their intangible assets and their tangible assets will become more of a burden. Intangibles include intellectual assets, the people who produce them, and the strategic aggregation of key information based assets. Everyone who produces results benefits from our business plan. Distances are vanishing. Distribution channels created barriers to entry because of the expense of moving physical goods from place to place.