And, of course, the software and high-tech industries such as Microsoft, Intel, Cisco Systems, Netscape, IBM, Sun Microsystems, Newbridge and Corel have become the economic engine of the Information Age just as the railway and auto industries were the economic engines of previous eras.
Et, bien entendu, les grandes sociétés du logiciel et de la haute technologie de pointe, comme Microsoft, Intel, Cisco Systems, Netscape, IBM, Sun Microsystems, Newbridge et Corel, sont devenues le moteur économique de l'ère de l'information, tout comme, autrefois, l'industrie des chemins de fer et celle de l'automobile.