資訊科學的蓬勃發展正促使社會型態急遽轉變。在快速變遷中原有的價值、觀念 、模式與教學派典遭遇強烈的衝擊和挑戰，同時也充滿了機會。由於資訊價值的生產是資訊 社會發展的主要憑藉；因此，面對這樣的環境唯有提升國民整體創造思維的能力才能面對國 際挑戰、掌握機會、提升國家競爭力。 本文從資訊科學的發展趨勢探討創造思考的時代意義，對教育模式的影響，並提出網際網路 、人工智慧、計算認識論（ computational epistemology ）等資訊科學領域對發展創造思 考和複雜問題解決能力帶來的啟示。

　　　　　The rapid development of information science impacts our society enormously. In such an information age, transition and instability becomes normal. Original values, concepts, systems and pedagogic paradigm vary extremely. At the same time there is full of challenge and opportunity. Since an information society have to keep thriving by means of producing value on information transformation, only through promoting overall creative thinking power of our nation citizens can we meet the challenge of next century, grasp opportunity, and raise our international competence. This paper examines the development track of information sciences and explores the value of creative thinking and education paradigm in information era. This paper also suggests that those research domains such as Internet, Artificial Intelligence, Computational Epistemology can enlight human power in creative thinking and complex problem solving.