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Manuel Castells states that information economy is not mutually exclusive with manufacturing economy.[citation needed] He finds that some countries such as Germany and Japan
exhibit the informatization of manufacturing processes.In a typical
conceptualization,however,information economy is considered a "stage"
or "phase" of an economy,coming after stages of hunting,agriculture,
and manufacturing.This conceptualization can be widely observed
regarding information society,a closely related but wider concept.其中Manuel Casetell是人名.