去年10月,在一次会议上,赵紫阳总理提到了世界上正在兴起的新技术革命。他说,这对我国的四化进军来说,既是一个机会,也是一个挑战。赵总理的这次谈话,已经引起强烈的反映。新技术革命的背景早在七十年代初期,美国社会学家丹尼尔.贝尔就提出所谓“后工业化社会”已经到来的“理论”。1978年,法国前内政部长米歇尔.波尼亚托夫斯基写了一本《变幻莫测的未来世界》,提出人类社会已经历了农业社会和工业社会,现在正向科技社会过渡。1980年,美国未来学家阿尔文.托夫勒写了一本《第三次浪潮》,认为人类在经历了农业革命、工业革命两次重大的历史“浪潮”以后,现在已进入了第三次浪 Last October, at a meeting, Premier Zhao Ziyang mentioned the emerging new technological revolution in the world. He said that this is an opportunity as well as a challenge to our country’s four modernizations. This talk of Premier Zhao has already aroused a strong reaction. The Background of the New Technology Revolution As early as the early 1970s, the American sociologist Daniel Bell proposed the “theory” that the so-called “post-industrialized society” has come. In 1978, former French Interior Minister Michel Boniatowski wrote an “unpredictable future world,” arguing that human society has gone through agricultural and industrial societies and is now making its transition to a science and technology society. In 1980, the United States futurist Alvin Toffler wrote a third wave, believing that humankind has now entered the third stage after two major “waves” of history, the agricultural revolution and the industrial revolution The second wave