The global epidemic in 2020 has left a permanent page in human history. Unprecedented measures such as "closing the country" and "closing the city" in many countries and places, working at home in the whole world and maintaining social distance for a long time have not only caused various "big disruptions" such as global logistics, supply chain and population flow, but also have a significant impact on business operation, enterprise operation and social operation. It can be said that the global epidemic in 2020 will permanently change the behavior of human society.
However, the global epidemic in 2020 is another major opportunity. Where the physical "big disruptions" appears, the digital platform quickly fills the "gap". Overnight, all mankind began to migrate on a large scale to the digital platform and digital world. In China, the resumption of school and work after the Spring Festival in 2020 has transferred hundreds of millions of students and employees to online resumption of school and work. Tens of thousands of enterprises, government agencies and social organizations are rapidly launching mobile Internet and cloud services to migrate social behaviors online.
It can be said that the global epidemic in 2020 accelerated the global digital transformation for at least two years, and some areas even accelerated for five years. Many enterprises and institutions that have planned digital projects before the epidemic have fully invested in and launched digital solutions on the whole line during the epidemic. Where there is a physical interruption, people hope to reconnect through online methods, but online methods are not equivalent to traditional physical methods - from intelligent machines to unmanned factories, from epidemic prevention robots to UAV logistics, from remote consultation to remote maintenance based on augmented reality technology.
Informational, digital and intelligent technologies will largely integrate into the production and life of human society during the global epidemic in 2020, and these technologies will not disappear because of the dissipation of the epidemic. On the contrary, they will always enter the social infrastructure and production and life practice, and will permanently change the human society and people's behavior. This is the significance of "new infrastructure". New infrastructure is not only China's "new infrastructure", but also the exploration and practice of the world's development towards digital economy and digital society. It is the re-invention, re-creation and re- evolution of human social infrastructure.
From the process of power and power supply system entering the infrastructure of human society, thus promoting mankind from the steam age to the electrical age and triggering the second industrial revolution, this is an evolution of nearly a century. Information technology and digital technology are going through the same process. The global epidemic in 2020 is a collective acceleration of the global digital process. China's "new infrastructure" coincides with the global epidemic, and China is the first to get out of the impact of the epidemic, enter the post epidemic era, and become the world's only major economy with positive economic growth in 2020, which gives China's "new infrastructure" an opportunity to lead the world.
Understanding New Infrastructure: Digital Technology Brings Opportunities for the Whole People focuses on the general trend of digital economy and sharing economy in the era of consumer Internet and industrial Internet, and gives a deep and wide introduction and exposition from the perspectives of methodology, purpose and goal, technology system, technology manufacturers and leading cases of digital transformation. It provides a practical path and route for the digital transformation of traditional enterprises and government institutions, and provides a complete knowledge reference system for everyone and every organization who wants to participate in the digital economy and sharing economy.
The writing process of this book lasted three years. From 2017 to 2020, it experienced the maturity of the digital technology system represented by cloud computing, artificial intelligence and big data, global large-scale digital transformation, the acceleration of digital transformation caused by the global epidemic in 2020 and the beginning of China's "new infrastructure". At the beginning of 2021, everything is clear - we will permanently enter the era of "new infrastructure", which will bring the benefits of digital technology and "build the foundation" for the digital economy.
If electricity has spawned innovative applications that rely on electricity, such as television, computers and modern factories, what new innovations and applications will be spawned by the intelligent computing power provided by the "new infrastructure"? Everything is waiting for human imagination and creation again.
