It now estimated to have at least 35 million users world wide with an annual growth rate of 5-7 million. In three years the forecast is every 3 seconds for the EEC and Japan. Global cellular phone systems such as Iridium and Teledesic and two-way pagers like SkyTel bring the world economies and people together. Now anyone that wants information has it. Every week the world publishes 40,000 scientific papers.
Information is no longer a factor of production.
What we are left with as a factor of production is creativity. The playing field for businesses everywhere is rapidly becoming the same. The importance of creativity as a competitive edge emerges more clearly when the current state of economic activity is studied with more detail. In the United States, I call it the 81 million pound gorilla. In Canada it is a 9 million pound gorilla.