Information Network -- A New Time and Space Tunnel for Humans

Author: Yoshinaga Hiroshi
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: With the ringing of the 21st century bell, humanity has moved from the atomic age to the bit age. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a series of groundbreaking scientific discoveries—such as electricity, atomic nuclei, radioactivity, and blackbody radiation—spurred Planck's quantum theory, Einstein's theory of relativity, and the mass-energy equivalence formula, ushering humanity into the atomic age. Terms like X-ray imaging, nuclear power plants, nuclear submarines, and atomic bombs have become everyday vocabulary for ordinary people. After a brief period of wonder, people began to calmly enjoy atomic civilization and cautiously discuss atomic disasters. However, just as people were beginning to grasp the essence of the atomic revolution, another more rapid revolution—the information revolution—arrived quietly. This book includes: An overview of information networks and information society; The information infrastructure of the network age; The social structure of the network age; The social changes brought about by information networks; Information network security and sustainable development; The rise of the "net elite" in the information network era; The Chinese nation in the information network era.