信息与物质、能量一样,是人类赖以生存和发展的基本资源。由于信息的生产、收集、传递、存储、加工、处理的需要,逐渐形成了信息产业。信息产业发展的结果大大缩短了时间和空间的距离,使人类获得前所未有的活动范围和创造能力。因此,现代文明国家都把信息产业作为国民经济与社会发展的重要支柱而高度重视。 Information, like material and energy, is a basic resource on which human beings depend for survival and development. As the information production, collection, transmission, storage, processing, processing needs, and gradually formed the information industry. The result of the development of the information industry has greatly shortened the distance between time and space and enabled mankind to gain unprecedented scope of activities and creativity. Therefore, the modern civilized countries attach great importance to the information industry as an important pillar of their national economy and social development.