This is made clear in a recent article by Ayhan Kose and Ezgi Ozturk in the International Monetary Fund’s slender review, Finance & Development.
6 The epoch-making impact of information and communications technology becomes self-evident if we compare the time, cost and process of drafting and publishing an article today and fifty years ago: a computer instead of a typewriter; the immediate online availability of data and bibliographical references, rather than their laborious acquisition in print, possibly requiring visits to more than one library; worldwide transmission with a single click via e-mail and Internet, in place of print and the traditional distribution of paper copies by post.