元宇宙时代的数字化生存:变革、风险与应对

作为集成多种数字技术而生的新型平台,元宇宙的出现不仅意味着新的时代转型节点即将到来,同时有望开启数字化生存的下一阶段。当前,技术发展、用户需求和资本利益三者相互交织,共同助推数字化生存的“元宇宙转向”。与现阶段的互联网平台相比,虚实交互、多元开放和人机融生的元宇宙将为用户提供沉浸式体验的同时拓展其生存时空并变革其生存形态。然而,元宇宙在带来诸多颠覆性变化的同时也隐藏着一系列风险。其中,全方位和深层次的数据收集可能加深资本隐性操控,极致性的虚拟沉浸体验可能加剧个体瘾性依赖,高维度人机交互与融生可能引发深层伦理困境。基于此,为了更好地应对元宇宙时代的数字化生存,在元宇宙的建设和发展中,需要加快技术突破,充分发挥数字技术的正效应;强化风险治理,探索元宇宙的有效治理机制;加强数字教育,提升公民数字素养。

Digital survival in the age of Metaverse: Change, risk and response

As a new platform born from the integration of multiple digital technologies, the emergence of metaverse not only means that a new era of transformation is coming, but also promises to open the next phase of digital existence. At present, technology development, user demand and capital interests are intertwined, together fueling the "meta-universe shift" of digital survival. Compared with the current digital platform, the metaverse of virtual-real interaction, multiple openness and human-computer integration will provide users with an immersive experience while expanding their living space and time and changing their living form. However, while the metaverse brings many disruptive changes, it also hides a series of risks and challenges. Among them, all-round and deep data collection may deepen the implicit manipulation of capital, extreme virtual immersion experience may intensify individual addiction dependence, and high-dimensional human-computer interaction and integration may lead to deep ethical dilemmas. Based on this, in order to better cope with digital survival in the metaverse era, it is necessary to accelerate technological breakthroughs and give full play to the positive effects of digital technology in the construction and development of the metaverse, strengthen risk governance and explore effective governance mechanisms of the metaverse, and strengthen digital education and enhance citizens'' digital literacy.