在经济和社会信息化进程方面,日本落后于美国。日本已认识到这一形势的严重性,并正在采取种种措施追赶美国。据估计,日本在信息化领域比美国落后大约10年,这一巨大差距是由多种因素造成的。进入80年代后,日本自以为在科学技术上超过了美国,没有什么可向美国学习的了。就在日本人自我陶醉的时候,美国认真地研究了日本的经验,以信息技术为龙头,以软件技术为核心,大力发展个人电脑应用技术,多媒体技术、虚拟现实技术,它还把最初用于军事目的的因特网技术转向民用。从1994年开始,这些技术的普及进入了飞跃阶段,技术普及带动了经济增长,同时也使产业竞争力大为增强。日本从80年代起也一直把信息通信技术作为重点发展对象之一,但是发展的重心却向计算机的大型化、高速化和半导体芯片的大容量化、微型化 Japan lags behind the United States in the economic and social information process. Japan has recognized the seriousness of this situation and is taking various measures to catch up with the United States. It is estimated that Japan lags behind the United States for about 10 years in the field of informationization. This huge disparity is caused by many factors. Since the 1980s, Japan has thought that it has surpassed the United States in science and technology and that nothing can be learned from the United States. Just as the Japanese were intoxicated, the United States studied Japan’s experience earnestly. With information technology as the lead and software technology as the core, the United States made great efforts to develop personal computer application technology, multimedia technology and virtual reality technology. It also initially used Internet technology for military purposes turned to civilian use. Since 1994, the popularization of these technologies has entered a leapfrog stage. The popularization of technology has led to economic growth and at the same time greatly enhanced the industrial competitiveness. Since the 1980s, Japan has also focused on information and communication technologies as one of the key development targets. However, the focus of development has been to increase the size and speed of computers, and to increase the capacity and miniaturization of semiconductor chips