正当人类社会即将告别二十世纪，阔步迈入二十一世纪之际，一种全新的经济形态正在形成、发展、壮大并迅猛地向全球扩张，这就是知识经济。虽然大多数人还以为我们目前仍生活在工业经济时代，但事实上人类社会已经不知不觉地进入了一个以创造和分配信息为基础的知识经济时代。 At a time when the human society is about to bid farewell to the twentieth century and striding into the twenty-first century, a completely new economic pattern is being formed, developed, expanded and rapidly expanded to the world. This is the knowledge-based economy. Although most people still think that we are still living in the era of industrial economy, in fact, human society has unwittingly entered a knowledge-based economy based on the creation and distribution of information.