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16.The Future of Information Technology
16.信息技術的發展前景
But as we stand here today, the opening of CeBIT, we are on the threshold of a very important change in the evolution of this industry. In many ways, this industry, a very immature industry, is about to play out in its most important dimension. That is because the technology has become so powerful and so pervasive that its future impact on people and governments and all institutions will dwarf what has happened today.
然而當我們今天站在這里，出席CeBIT開幕式的時候，信息技術革命正在發生重要變革。雖然目前信息技術產業發展時間不長，但在很多方面，它將發揮至關重要的作用。這是因為信息技術已經變得如此強大、如此普遍，以致未來它對人、政府和各個機構的影響將使目前的狀況相形見絀。
I believe there are two trends that are most significant here, and bear the closest watching. The first is what we call deep computing. The term is inspired by our chess-playing super computer Deep Blue, which I believe many of you know competed with the Grand Master Gary Kasparov last year. The second major development in Information Technology is of course for a topical, already discussed here this evening, and that is the rise of global networks, like the Internet to create a network world, or what some call a network economy.
我認為，現在我們最需要關注的是信息技術產業發展的兩個最重要的趨勢。第一個我們稱之為“深入計算”，這個術語是我們在超級計算機“深藍”的啟發下得到的。“深藍”會下國際象棋，相信很多人都知道，它去年曾和國際象棋大師加里·卡帕斯洛夫較量過。第二個信息技術的重要發展，就像我們已經討論過的，是全凍網絡的崛起，比如Internet，它創造了一個網絡世界，也有些人稱之為網絡經濟。
Personally I believe that future leadership companies and by the way future leadership institutions of all kinds will be those who know how to compete and win on the basis of knowledge——learning, adapting and improving the vital asset we know as information.
我個人認為，未來社會的領先企業和領先機構必將懂得以知識為基礎——學習、適應和改進信息這一重要資產，在競爭中取得勝利。
