What are the advantages of future information technology compared with the present?

(1) The global network connecting computers and communication lines will be the largest machine ever. In the next few decades, it may expand many times or even more. This behemoth will fundamentally change our life today.

(2) Just as machines took over most of the heavy physical labor in the past, computers will take over more and more of our thinking tasks. The increasingly powerful problem-solving ability of the global computer system makes human fantasy shame. Today's supercomputers can calculate 1.4 trillion times per second, but scientists now expect an "ultra-high-speed" computing technology, which can reach a level thousands of times faster than today's fastest computers. Nowadays, new technologies that solve problems more effectively than using the original computing power emerge one after another.