信息化和信息社会信息社会这一概念,出现于80年代中期,现已成为常用语固定下来了。然而,很少有人知道这个词汇是日本发明的和式英语。它的语源大致来自两个方面:一是60年代末未来学盛行时,作为知识社会论的一个内容被使用;另一个是进入80年代后,作为现实的社会目标被提出的。何谓信息社会?在许多场合下,它的语义模糊不清。狹义地说,罗杰斯(E.M.Rogers)的定义很确切,他说信息社会“是这个国家大多数劳动者从事信息生产,而且信息是最重要的要 Information and Information Society The concept of information society, appearing in the mid-1980s, has now become a commonplace term. However, few people know this term is Japanese-style and English-style. Its source comes from two aspects: First, when futurology prevailed in the late 1960s, it was used as a part of the theory of knowledge society; the other was put forward as a realistic social goal after entering the 1980s. What is the information society? On many occasions, its semantic ambiguity. In a narrow sense, E.M. Rogers has a very definite definition. He states that the information society "is where most workers in the country are engaged in information production and information is the most important