一、美国的新经济与当代的信息革命 今年是２１世纪的第一年。在这 个世纪之交的时刻，从全球范围来 看，就经济发展而言，有两件引起世 人注目的大事。第一件大事是中国通 过近２０年的改革开放，基本上实现 了由贫穷到小康的转变。在一个１３ 亿人口的大国，在一个如此之短的 I. The New Economy of the United States and the Information Revolution This year is the first year of the 21st century. At the turn of this century, from a global perspective, in terms of economic development, there are two major events that have attracted worldwide attention. The first major event was that China, after nearly 20 years of reform and opening up, basically realized the transition from poverty to well-off society. In a big country with a population of 1.3 billion, at one such shortest time