"The Information Age...is dead and gone, replaced by the information economy...The Information Age was about the building of databases. It was about the rise of computing. Today, the databases are already built; the ninth generation of personal computers is already passing through the marketplace; computing has merged with communication to create connectivity. [We have] passed into the information economy. In the information economy, intellectual capital, not physical assets, drives everything." 

Jim Taylor and Watts Wacker with Howard Means,
The 500 Year Delta: What Happens after What Comes Next