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Survival, Life and Development: The Digital Space and Human Modernisation

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DOI: 10.23977/phij.2026.050103 | Downloads: 1 | Views: 43

Author(s)

Wu Xuanhong 1

Affiliation(s)

1 School of Marxism, Guiyang Institute of Humanities and Technology, Guiyang, Guizhou, 550025, China

Corresponding Author

Wu Xuanhong

ABSTRACT

The digital space has become a realm of existence, daily life and development in which people find themselves immersed without realising it, and which they utilise without a second thought. As a space of existence, the digital space reshapes human sociality and the essence of human being. As a space of daily life, it provides people with decentralised sharing platforms and poetic habitats, whilst integrating interpersonal interaction with the meaning of life. As a space for development, the digital realm drives a paradigm shift in human development from a time-oriented to a space-oriented approach, exchanging the spatialisation of time for human developmental space, thereby reshaping people's spatial perceptions and spatial survival skills—ensuring they neither suffer from being immersed within it nor feel anxious from being excluded from it.

KEYWORDS

Digital space; human-technology symbiosis; space of existence; space of life; space of development

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Wu Xuanhong. Survival, Life and Development: The Digital Space and Human Modernisation. Philosophy Journal (2026). Vol. 5, No.1, 14-21. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/phij.2026.050103.

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