现代社会的发展向成人教育提出了新的要求。首先,当今世界科学技术取得了迅猛发展。一是科技新发明加速涌现,仅本世纪70年代重大科技发明就达1100多项,比战前几个世纪发明的总和还多。二是新技术新产品的更替速度加快,从科技发明到形成产品的转化周期缩短。使知识 The development of modern society has put forward new requirements for adult education. First of all, science and technology in the world today have witnessed rapid development. First, accelerating the emergence of new inventions of science and technology. Only the invention of major scientific and technological inventions in the 1970s reached more than 1,100, more than the total sum invented in the centuries before the war. Second, the speed of turnover of new technologies and new products is accelerating, and the conversion cycle from invention of science and technology to the formation of products is shortened. Make knowledge