第四世界

第四世界作为本提出的新概念，主要指谓：继物质世界、精神世界和客观知识世界之后，20世纪，借助电脑网络、电子通讯、虚拟技术及人类丰富的想像力将光、电、色、能、数字与信息集于一体，将宇宙万物和人类社会的政治、经济、科学、化、日常生活缩合为一，构建的一个美妙神奇的新天地。它是对塞博空间、虚拟现实、网络世界和信息社会等“新实体”的综合。它反映了自然和人进化的合力。它将宇宙推到一个新层次，展现了新世界的特征、趋势和价值。它代表着人类认知的组成规律，凸现出人类能动的构建能力。

Fourth World

Fourth world, as a new conception advanced by this article's author, mainly indicates a new, wonderful and mystical heaven and earth in which mankind mixes light, electricity, color, energy, figure and information together, and combines universal things and human social politics, economics, science, culture, and daily life into one, with the help of computer network, telecommunication, virtual technology, and the great power of imagination, on the basis of material world, spiritual world, and objective knowledge world of 20th century. It is a new synthesis of cyberspace, virtual reality, network world, and information society. It reflects the joint force of nature and human evolution. It pushes universe forward to a new level, and presents its new character, tendency, and value. It represents the composite law of mankind cognition and protrudes makind's active construction ability.