按照目前一些专家的看法,到1993年,信息技术产业将代表欧洲最重要的经济部门。这个部门将影响2/3的事业及工业部门,它的就业人数将占全社会就业人数的一半以上。事实上,几乎所有欧共体的研究计划都不可避免地涉及到信息技术。但是目前欧洲在信息技术领域的研究与发展方面所付出的努力只及美国的 According to some current experts, by 1993, the information technology industry will represent the most important economic sector in Europe. This sector will affect two-thirds of the business and industrial sectors. Its employment amount will account for more than half of the total employment of the whole society. In fact, almost all EC research programs inevitably involve information technology. However, the current European efforts in research and development in the field of information technology only involve the United States