근데 앞뒤 문맥을 아셔야 할 것 같아서 쓰긴 다 쓸게요

Well, who is right in this debate? I think it is the radicals. The level of world trade much higher than it ever was before, and involves a much wider range of goods and services. But the biggest difference is the level of finance and capital flows. Geared as it is to electronic money - money that only exists as digits in computers - the current world economy has no parallels in earlier times.

Geared as it is 로 첫 문장을 시작하는데, 이걸 어떻게 해석하면 좋을까요? ㅜㅜ