我們相信深入計(jì)算是一個(gè)將對(duì)商業(yè)和社會(huì)產(chǎn)生深遠(yuǎn)影響的趨勢(shì)。當(dāng)然把難題扔向計(jì)算機(jī)的觀念并不新鮮。它可以追溯到這種產(chǎn)業(yè)剛出現(xiàn)的時(shí)代。但是今天的不同之處是現(xiàn)在的系統(tǒng)非常強(qiáng)大,價(jià)格又極為公道,以致于能夠在各種商業(yè)和政府部門、各種科研機(jī)構(gòu)中廣泛應(yīng)用。
The second major development in Information Technology is of course for a topic, alreadydiscussed here this evening, and that is the rise of global networks, like the Internet to createa network world, or what some call a network economy. About 16 million people use theInternet today. And the estimates are that that number will grow to 500 million, and perhapssomeday to a billion. Now what will these connected people going to do, or they want to do?Not too long ago, people in my industry thought that the action was going to be an informationdissemination - news, weathers, sports scores, online magazines called E-zines, and shortconsumer information. IBM has had a different view for some time. We believe the realpotential of the network world is for conducting transactions of all kinds, between parties ofall kinds, an effect that seems to be what is happening.
就象今天晚上已經(jīng)談到的,信息技術(shù)第二個(gè)重要的發(fā)展是全球網(wǎng)絡(luò)的崛起,比如 Internet,它創(chuàng)造了一個(gè)網(wǎng)上世界,也有些人稱之為網(wǎng)上經(jīng)濟(jì)。如今有 1600 萬人使用 Internet。估計(jì)這個(gè)數(shù)字很快就會(huì)升至 5 億,也許有一天還會(huì)達(dá)到 10 億。那么這些上網(wǎng)的人打算做些什么,或者說想做些什么呢?不久以前,我們這個(gè)領(lǐng)域的人認(rèn)為網(wǎng)上活動(dòng)將會(huì)是信息發(fā)布 -- 新聞、天氣預(yù)報(bào)、體育比分、在線雜志(被稱作 E-zine)以及簡(jiǎn)短的消費(fèi)信息。IBM 對(duì)此持不同觀點(diǎn)已經(jīng)有一段時(shí)間了。我們認(rèn)為網(wǎng)絡(luò)世界的真正潛力在于引導(dǎo)所有不同團(tuán)體之間的不同種類的交易,網(wǎng)上現(xiàn)在正在發(fā)生的情況似乎就是如此。