一些经济发达国家自称已进入信息社会,其依据是这些国家半数以上的从业人员从事信息工作。存西方国家,信息工作所指范围很广,凡属信息创造、处理和分配的工作都叫信息工作。美国社会预测学家约翰·奈斯比特在其名著《大趋势——改变我们生活的十个新方向》一书中,将所有受过专业训练的知识分子——律师、教师、工程师、程序员、医生、会计、图书馆员、记者等都叫做信息工作人员。“信息”一词译自英语单词Informafion,该词也可译为情报,因此,信息工作人员也可译为情报工作人员。很显然,这是根据广义的信息(情报) Some economically developed countries claim to have entered the information society on the basis that more than half of the workers in these countries engage in information work. In western countries, the scope of information work is very broad. Everything that creates, processes and distributes information is called information work. In his book The Megatrends - Ten New Directions to Change Our Lives, American social forecaster John Nashbit combines all the professionally trained intellectuals - lawyers, teachers, engineers, programmers, Doctors, accountants, librarians and journalists are all called information workers. The word “information” is translated from the English word Informafion, which can also be translated as intelligence, so information workers can also be translated as intelligence staff. Obviously, this is based on broad information (intelligence)