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The next expansion may well look different from the last one, with a new complement of companies leading the charge. Pharmaceutical and biotech companies are likely to expand rapidly, riding the wave of innovation that results from the unraveling of the human genome. As for info tech, expect a mixed bag. It’s hard to see who’s going to sizzle by making slightly faster routers, or stringing yet more optical fibers across prairies and oceans. What consumers and businesses want now are systems that produce immediate, concrete benefits. Computing on demand, for instance, is supposed to make computing as easy as turning on a water tap. Instead of running its own complicated info-tech shop, a business pays by the month to use hardware and software maintained by an outside specialist. A promising new generation of collaborative software from companies such as MatrixOne, Agile Software, and logistics.com eliminates bottlenecks in supply chains through information sharing. And wireless still holds promise: Pretty soon, experts say, cell phones and the Internet will go together like peanut butter and jelly.

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Innovation in the form of packaged services and collaborative products may very well be the features of the new economy, different from those of the traditional economy.

像提供整合服务和协同产品这类创新很可能成为不同于传统经济、专属于新经济的特征。

词语解释

1、a mixed bag

also a mixed bunch, a diverse assortment of things or people混合体
e.g.

1）We have a mixed bag of destinations and holidays for you.
　　 我们有不同的出行目的地和度假活动供你挑选。

2）She invited a mixed bag of people to her party.
　　 她邀请了各种人来参加聚会。

2、go together like peanut butter and jelly

Pretty soon, experts say, cell phones and the Internet will go together like peanut butter and jelly.

In this sentence, “go together like peanut butter and jelly” means “go together harmoniously” .相匹配

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