Information Shock

I define it as the time when new information technology increases knowledge about the location of goods, rapidly.

The classic example, we suddenly mass produce penny press with graphics and stories by a thousand fold. England 1820. Newspapers are instructions on various methods to organize into efficient production. How other countries, other industries, and other technologies were being used, with profit and loss statements. Available at 1/6 the cost of prior print technology. Delivered daily. Soon came double sided printing.

Assets value across international boundaries would suddenly shift as each population made production shifts by copying the best practices of the other. Asymmetric information corrected.