[2016-01-30] searchcio.techtarget.com : digital economy

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The term was coined by Don Tapscott, author of the 1995 best-selling book "The Digital Economy: Promise and Peril in the Age of Networked Intelligence" and the anniversary edition released in 2014.

Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, has described the digital economy as using "bits instead of atoms."

http://searchcio.techtarget.com/definition/digital-economy