There continues to be considerable talk around the growing "information economy".
It continues to be used to rationalize the movement of manufacturing jobs offshore (as in "yes, well those are 'old-world' and we are now moving into the information economy with plenty of jobs for the computer-literate").

Now I am aware of certain successful more recent businesses that sell "information" and make good money. Two that come to mind are weather tracking/predicting and satellite photography. I also know that marketing is successfully using (long deemd private, but they don't care) information from widely disparate sources to improve their techniques and success rates. And of course there are several that have been with us for a long time (well before computers) in specific niches.

But where is the burgeoning "INFORMATION ECONOMY???
Was it assumed as part of the .COM explosion and forgotten that it was linked in the subsequent collapse?

I do know of one part of the information stream that is growing like wildfire and will continue unabated for the foreseeable future - work wanted signs and resume production.