摘要
技术革命标志着人类改造客观世界的飞跃。18世纪后期的产业革命,利用机械代替人类体力劳动,使人类的双手延长。现代自然科学已集中在三大前沿科学,即信息科学、生命科学与材料科学,其核心则为信息科学。信息科学以信息论为基础,其主体是信息论、系统论、控制论以及派生的电子计算机和人工智能。新技术革命的基本特征是信息化、知识化和分散化,但其起因与基础则来自微电子技术。由于信息科学技术的发展最为迅速而活跃,新技术革命实质上是信息革命或智力革命。一物质、能量与信息三大要素,组成了客观世界。物质是信息的载体,而信息传递则需要能量消耗。
Modern natural science has been concentrated in three frontier sciences,that is,information science,life science and material science,the essence of these three is information science.Since information science develops most actively and rapidly,new technical revolution in fact is revolution of informadtion or of intelligence.Human brain is a highest sys- tem for transference,storage,recognition,utilization and treatment of information.Evolution of mankind itself is inde- pendent of increase in weight or volume of human brain,but relies on amplification of intelligence or of human brain power.Its extension produces computer,and its intension brings forth creative thought.Revolution of information makes use of computer to replace human brain partially.Computer as electrical brain greatly reduces the work burden of machanical and habitual thought of human brain,allowing the latter to employ in creative thought which the com- puter is unable to substitute,and amplifies toward high intelligent activity of brain work. In brief,new technical revo- lution marks as computer adding human brain.The creative work of human brain decides that the process of thinking must be open and cannot be closed.The illustrations as amplifying human brain power in medicine are clinical dialeetial thought and soeio-psycho-biological medical pattern.
出处
《大自然探索》
1990年第1期132-135,共4页
Discovery of Nature