随着信息使用费用的急剧下降,我们可以使用的信息量不仅比以前大大增加,而且使用信息的人数也越来越多。现在社会学家已不再谈及技术时代、计算机时代或电子时代了,因为我们这一代正在建立的社会是信息社会,它将给人类生活的各个方面带来重大改变。为使全球各地能够真正公平合理地享受信息社会带来的益处,信息社会必须覆盖全球。 As the cost of information usage drops drastically, the amount of information we can use has not only increased dramatically, but also the number of people using information has increased. Now that sociologists no longer talk about the technological age, the computer age or the electronic age, because the society we are building is an information society that will bring about major changes in all aspects of human life. To make the benefits of the information society truly and equitably available globally, the information society must be global in scope.