互联网时代的全球化:缘起及经济特征

Globalization in the Age of the Internet:Origin ands Economic Characteristics

全球化是一个多维度的社会变迁过程 ,因其依赖的物质技术基础的差异而表现出面貌各异的时代特征。互联网时代的全球化指的是 :自上世纪 90年代以后 ,互联网被普遍地运用到人类生产和生活的各个层面后 ,全球化进入的一个新阶段。作为“冷战”和信息革命的共同产物 ,互联网充当了加速全球化的“不自觉的历史工具”,它是当今全球化的物质技术基础。互联网时代的全球化力度剧增 ,其特征 ,在经济领域呈现出与以往任何一个时期的全球化完全不同的景观

As a multi dimensional social evolution,globalization presents various characteristics of the times,depending on the different material and technical bases.The globalization of the Internet Age means that,since the 1990s,the Internet has widely spread into every aspect of human life,and thus globalization has reached a new phase.As a product of the Cold War and the information revolution,the Internet acts as an'unconscious historical tool'to speed up the process of globalization.It is now the material and technical base of globalization.The forces of globalization in the age of the Internet have been enhanced.The characteristics of globalization in the economic sphere present a totally new landscape compared to that in the past,that is,the running of a capitalistic economy has been informationalized from means to content.