<span>The rise of computer corporations like Microsoft and dot.com businesses signaled the advent of
a. industrial technology.
b. the global information age.
c. mass democracy.
d. entrepreneurial capitalism.
e. the speculative stock market.</span>
b
<span></span><span>All of the following proved to be characteristics of the new information age economy except
a. instant global communications.
b. high-tech computer and media businesses.
c. the decline of traditional occupations mediating between products and clients.
d. an end to the boom-and-bust capitalist business cycle.
e. outsourcing of white collar American jobs to Third World countries.</span>
d
