[Discuss] Material vs Information Economy

[Marcin Jakubowski]

To specify my question, I think I should be asking "What is the relative
size of the material economy vs information economy?" Is this a well-formed
question?

I googled Sectors of the economy and this seems to be useful:

http://www.economicshelp.org/blog/12436/concepts/sectors-economy/

1. Primary sector: raw materials.
2. Secondary sector: manufacturing, buildings, roads, and any physical
infrastructures/facilities
3. Tertiary sector: services including retail, insurance, banking, tourism,
restaurants
4. Quaternary sector: education, training, R&D
5. Quinary sector: government

1 and 2 are clearly 100% materially related. The retail part of 3 is based
primarily on natural and manufactured resources, so that is part of the
material economy. The parts of 4 that relate to material production relate
to raw materials and manufacturing. 5 is not the material economy.

My question aims at the potential economic impact of open source hardware:
is that a billion dollar startup like Google, or is it a trillion dollar
startup like nothing prior - in recorded human history?

Marcin

On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 5:35 AM, Tom Igoe <tom.igoe at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think you need to be more specific on that “etc” to get good numbers.
> For example, is energy hardware or software? Because it’s pretty big.
>
>
> Tom
>
> On Feb 8, 2017, at 9:37 PM, Marcin Jakubowski <
> marcin at opensourceecology.org> wrote:
>
> Friends,
>
> I'm researching the size of the hardware vs software economy. What is the
> latest on the size of the hardware economy (materials, housing, industry,
> ag etc) compared to the information economy (software, information
> services, education, etc)?
>
> I heard somewhere that the hardware economy is 80% of the economy. Can
> anyone point me to sources?
>
> Thanks,
> Marcin
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