21世纪与信息科学 人类社会发展的历史,是人类认识世界和优化世界的历史,科学技术则是人类认识世界和优化世界活动发展到一定的历史阶段的产物。 最初,人们仅仅凭借自身器官的功能同外部世界打交道:用感觉器官观察外部世界,通过神经系统把感觉到的现象传递到大脑,思维器官则对所观察到的现象进行分析加工,获得新的认识(认识外部世界),并在此基础上形成与外部世界 The 21st Century and Information Science The history of the development of human society is the history of human understanding of the world and the optimization of the world. Science and technology are the product of the historical stages in which human beings understand the world and optimize the world’s activities. Initially, people dealt with the outside world simply by virtue of the function of their own organs: observing the outside world with sensory organs, passing sensory phenomena through the nervous system to the brain, and thinking organs analyzing and processing the observed phenomena and gaining a new understanding (Understanding of the outside world) and on this basis form with the outside world