The recent boom in technological advances, formation of new businesses, and personal【1】is
The great【9】from the hardware era include those of the Hewlett and Packard families, of Hewlett-Packard, which started【10】money in the presilicon era, with scientific instruments. The Packard Foundation, with【11】 of $10 billion, recently【12】the Ford Foundation as the nation's third-largest private foundation The【13】hardware company of the 1990s is Intel,【14】Pentium and other processing chips are used in most personal computers【15】the Macintosh.
The second【16】of wealth creation involved software—"application" software that people use for work or recreation, like word-processing programs or computer games, and "systems" software used to【17】businesses or, very often, computer networks【18】. The difference between software and hardware provides a classic illustration of【19】economists mean by "increasing returns to scale." Because the cost of producing additional units of software—the "marginal cost"- is extremely low,【20】you become the market leader in a field, your profits grow astronomically.
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A.fortune
B.fortunes
C.property
D.estate