The concept of cyberspace destiny community fully demonstrates the characteristics of network technology and the development prospect of network.
The concept of "Cyberspace Destiny Community" is an important part of the Supreme Leader’s General Secretary’s important thought about the network power. It has rich theoretical connotation and practical value, and is of great guiding significance to the development direction of the world’s Internet technology, the reform of the global governance system of the Internet, and the construction process of the network society. It can be deeply understood from five key words in combination with the characteristics of network technology and people’s network practice activities.
One isconnect. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out that the Internet has truly turned the world into a global village and made the international community more and more a community of destiny with you and me. At present, human beings are "migrating" to cyberspace at an unprecedented scale and speed, forming the largest gathering in history, building a community of destiny in cyberspace, and at the same time accelerating the formation of a community of human destiny. Standing in the Internet age, when we try to figure out the view that "the world is universally connected" again, we should have a more stereoscopic and intuitive understanding and feeling. Netizens are similar to transistors. The more the number, the faster the interaction and the tighter the connection, the stronger the performance of this "integrated circuit" of human society will be. With the help of the Internet and access terminals, any two people on the earth can establish a stable and continuous connection, and groups of any size can have complicated interactions. The globalization of interpersonal interaction promotes the globalization process of various countries and economies, and it is unstoppable to build a community of human destiny.
The second isequality. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader said that cyberspace is a common space for human activities. In the real world, matter and energy are limited, so it is impossible for everyone to allocate resources and enjoy energy absolutely equally. However, digital information is easy to generate, copy and store, and once it is released to the public, it will be enjoyed by everyone, and with the expansion of communication scope, the value of information and new information will continue to multiply. The Internet has assigned everyone a fair node, and all devices are interconnected in strict accordance with the Internet protocol group, giving everyone equal information exchange rights. The equality of identity and the symmetry of information have brought about the fairness of discourse and stimulated people’s enthusiasm for creating information. Just as countless workers were summoned from the underground in the industrial age, numerous "self-media" and information have emerged. The interactive objects, channels, carriers and environments that people can choose become diverse. They can not only keep social stickiness with acquaintances, but also socialize with countless strangers at almost zero cost. They can also interact deeply with machines, programs and virtual things, and their autonomy and diversity of communication are enhanced.
The third iscooperate. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader said that all countries should promote open cooperation in the Internet field, enrich the connotation of openness, improve the level of openness, build more communication and cooperation platforms, create more points of convergence of interests, growth points of cooperation, and win-win new highlights, promote mutual complementarity and common development in cyberspace, and allow more countries and people to take the express train in the information age and share the fruits of Internet development. Internet is closely connecting individuals scattered around the world, which not only enlarges individual strength, but also highlights the effect that "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts", which makes every node generally benefit and condenses powerful synergy. In the fight against COVID-19 epidemic, floods, typhoons, earthquakes, fires and other major emergencies and various public welfare activities, people spontaneously organized rescue teams, propaganda teams, medical teams, transport teams and volunteer teams through the Internet, which fully reflected the strong social organization, mobilization, mutual assistance and execution of self-organization, temporary organizations and online communities, which strongly promoted the "social governance community with everyone’s responsibility, everyone’s responsibility and everyone’s enjoyment". From the perspective of business model, the high-speed, massive and long-distance exchange of data and information provides important support for people in different time zones and countries to relay R&D and production tasks. Large multinational companies, especially Internet companies, have set up R&D, production and data centers all over the world, realizing the "24 hours +365 days" full-time Industry-University-Research combination mode.No longer limited by the alternation of day and night, people’s rest and sleep, it has built an all-regional, all-weather and full-participation cooperation model, which has erupted unprecedented wisdom and energy.
The fourth isPratt & Whitney. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader proposed to promote mutual complementarity and common development in cyberspace, so that more countries and people can take the express train in the information age and share the fruits of Internet development. The traditional information exchange system mostly adopts the transmission path of top-down and central control, which naturally serves the ruling demand and is controlled by a few people, and plays an important role in the stability of political power and social order. But these information systems are not for most people, and the improvement of people’s quality of life is very limited. "Pratt & Whitney" is one of the basic ideas pursued by the fathers of the Internet. Tim Berners Lee made the great invention of the World Wide Web public for free, and gave up the opportunity to become the richest man in the world, which in itself showed the valuable spirit of Internet sharing. Their original intention of inventing and promoting network technology is not to serve specific fields or special people, but to establish a new information exchange system with lasting stability, wide coverage, high fidelity and high frequency interaction. Since the third industrial revolution, the Internet has stood out among many technologies. Its advantage lies in that it has changed human society from the level of production and lifestyle. It is a truly universal, universal and revolutionary great invention, giving human beings the right to engage in information production, exchange and consumption indiscriminately, and gradually shaping the pyramid-shaped traditional social structure into a flat world.
The fifth isGongrong. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out that in the era of economic globalization, the development of all countries is interlocking, and all countries are prosperous and lose. With the continuous growth of the number of netizens and the continuous expansion of the network penetration rate, the vast majority of human beings will be "caught in the net" by the Internet, and will survive for a long time in the superposition of cyberspace and real society, forming an integrated symbiotic model of "above the cloud+under the cloud", "acquaintances+strangers" and "virtual+reality". Berners-Lee said that the Internet has changed the way we work and live, but what we really want to achieve now is to use the Internet to help people all over the world communicate with each other and deepen their understanding. The continuous density and expansion of the "human web" will deepen the communication and mutual understanding between different cultures, regions and races, and the whole world will present a new map of high-frequency interaction, efficient cooperation and rapid development. From this point of view, the Internet is the "blender" and "catalyst" of human culture, which has a significant role in promoting the process of global integration, rallying global consensus and uniting global forces. In this process, we need to pay special attention to the "butterfly effect". Because in the cyberspace where a single node can implement global actions, the denser the network, the larger the coverage and the more fields it penetrates.The higher and more comprehensive the requirements for network security, the quality of netizens and the network environment are. We need to always practice such precious spirits as "equality and mutual assistance", "collaborative innovation" and "mutual benefit and win-win", and actively promote the symbiosis and common prosperity of mankind on the basis of global interconnection, civilized construction and common enjoyment.
Author: Gao Yu, special researcher of Beijing Supreme Leader New Era Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought Research Center, lecturer of Marxism College of China Communication University.