目前,世界正处在科学技术大发展的时代。随着现代科学技术的发展,我们已经进入了信息时代,或称电子时代。当代的特点是,各种基础科学与应用科学在飞速发展,促进工业化社会以惊人的速度向非工业化转变,从工业化社会向信息社会转变。这个转变,就是所谓新的产业革命。 At present, the world is in an era of great development in science and technology. With the development of modern science and technology, we have entered the information age, or the electronic age. The characteristics of the contemporary era are that various basic sciences and applied sciences are developing at a rapid pace, and the industrialized society is being transformed at an alarming rate toward non-industrialization and from the industrialized society to the information society. This change is the so-called new industrial revolution.