信息文明的探索,將為當代發展的重新理解提供一把新的鑰匙。作為基于物能文明的更高層次文明,信息文明是人類文明在信息維度的開展,涉及發展從物能到信息、資源從分享到共享、人和資源的關系從擁有到使用、人本身及其活動從物能化到信息化等方面。人類文明的信息開展,呈現了人的存在方式、信息生態和社會發展動力機制的信息文明展開。信息文明凸顯了發展歸根結底是人的發展這一深層意蘊、人的發展從外在條件到內在需要的內在機制、社會發展從量的增加到質的進步的基本方式。由此,當代發展正呈現人的發展和社會進步的加速雙向循環,其中人的發展越來越居于優先地位,發展動力的更新與人的需要的發展之間越來越直接關聯,社會進步的整體水平越來越成為發展的關鍵。中國在引領信息文明發展的崛起過程中,既具有獨一無二的優勢,又面臨創造力解放的關鍵任務。

The exploration of information civilization will provide a key to a new understanding of contemporary development.Based as it is on a higher level than physical energy civilization,information civilization represents the development of human civilization along the dimension of information.It involves development from physical energy to information,from individual ownership of resources to the collective sharing of resources,from people’s ownership relations with resources to utilization relationships,from the formation of the physical energy of people’s activities to the informatization of people’s activities,etc.The opening up of information in human civilization exhibits the development of an information civilization consisting of man’s mode of existence,information ecology,and the mechanisms underlying the impetus for social development.Information civilization highlights the profound meaning of the fact that when it comes down to it,development is human development.The basic mode of man’s development is from external conditions to internal needs through an internal mechanism,and the basic mode of social development is from increases in quantity to qualitative progress.Consequently,contemporary development presents an accelerated two-way cycle of human development and social progress in which the former is increasingly becoming apriority.The renewal of development momentum shows an increasingly direct link to the development of human needs,and the overall level of social progress is increasingly becoming the key to development.In the course of China’s rise to the position of leading the development of information civilization,the country has unique advantages,but at the same time faces the key task of emancipating creativity.