从20世纪60年代开始,一场新的信息革命悄然来临,它将把人类带进信息化社会。与这个社会相适应的社会技术是信息技术。信息技术是以微电子学。光电子学为基础,以计算机、通讯、控制技术为核心的综合性技术。这项技术在人类发展史上将大大改变人类创造物质财富和精神财富的方式、方法和结果,也会改变社会结构和人类自身的生活方式和习俗。由于高速信息网络的发展,人们之间的时空距离可能缩至 Beginning in the 1960s, a new information revolution quietly came into existence. It will bring human beings into the information society. The social technology that is compatible with this society is information technology. Information technology is based on microelectronics. Optoelectronics-based, computer, communications, control technology as the core of a comprehensive technology. This technology, in the history of human development, will greatly change the ways, methods and results of mankind ’creation of material wealth and spiritual wealth. It will also change the social structure and humankind’s own lifestyles and customs. Due to the development of high-speed information networks, the space-time distance between people may be reduced