当今世界正步入信息时代,信息成为经济发展的战略 资源和独特的生产要素。经济的竞争实际上演变为 信息的竞争,谁首先掌握了信息,谁就拥有主动权。因此,无论是发达国家还是发展中国家,为了保持在下个世纪的竞争力,都在抢占信息化这一“制高点”。最近,美、日等国又相继提出并投入巨资加紧开发建设“信息高速公路”,引起国际电局界和各国政府的普通关注。因为,它的建立不仅仅是一场技术革命,还将给世界经济和人们的工作、生活方式带来根本性的变革,从而开辟信息时代的一个新纪元。 “信息高速公路”的由来和内容 早在1964年,美国兰德公司的研究员巴兰就设计了一种具有通信中心、中央转换和控制的交互式电脑网络。与传 Today’s world is entering the information age, and information has become a strategic resource and a unique factor of production for economic development. Economic competition actually evolved into information competition, who first mastered the information, who has the initiative. Therefore, both the developed countries and the developing countries are seizing the “commanding heights” of informationization in order to maintain their competitiveness in the next century. Recently, the United States, Japan and other countries have successively proposed and invested heavily in accelerating the development and construction of an “information superhighway,” arousing the common concern of the international electric authorities and governments. Because its establishment is not only a technological revolution, it will also bring fundamental changes to the world economy and people’s work and life style, thus opening up a new era in the information age. The Origin and Content of the “Information Superhighway” As early as 1964, Bland, a researcher at the US-based Rand Corporation, designed an interactive computer network with communication centers, central switching and control. And pass