Abstract:In the process of economic transformation and industrial upgrading, whether the new technology can form new driving force and further promote the new economy has become the common concern of government, industry, and academia. This paper analyzesthe prospects and risks of the new economy from the perspective of information technology trend, and points out that the information technology is the main driving force of the new economy in the next 15-20 years; Human-Cyber-Physical ternary intelligenceis the most leading technology; for the cultivation of new driving force, technology accumulation and innovation are equally important. Technology accumulation is quite weak in China's industrial control field, government should increase R&D investment, vigorously educate science and technology talents in the field of intelligent control.