The bifurcation point

Humanity is steadily and limply plunging into a conglomerate of all existing types of crises.

The fundamental reason for the crisis situation in almost all countries, regardless of the level of development, the continent and the dominant religion, is the crisis of social governance.

Due to the rapid development of information technology, the world has become globalized and hyperdynamic. Traditional management methods have lost their effectiveness, new ones have not had time to form.

The basis of management is the information model of the management object. The mission of electronic communications is to form an information model of society and the environment as an instrumental basis for managing social processes from human self–development to public administration and interstate cooperation.

The information space is an all–powerful discrete environment, fully logged and fully algorithmizable. The discreteness of the environment makes it possible to implement any internally consistent system of social interaction procedures necessary to ensure sustainable homeostasis of global society.

The role of the information space as a key environment for social interaction between citizens, business and the state is steadily and irreversibly increasing. The trend is certainly positive, but it carries fatal risks if adequate protective measures are not taken.

With all the variety and splendor of the tools developed, the de facto Internet has become a chaotic conglomerate of heterogeneous technologies, a fragmented unlowful information space in which the dominance of crime is growing uncontrollably.

An in-depth analysis of the processes of social informatization has made it possible to identify a basic principle, on the acceptance or non-acceptance of which the further path of human development depends. This is a crucial historical bifurcation point.

The key issue is the status of an individual in the information space. If business and the state are represented on the Internet by their resident servers, then a person does not have his own sovereign network identity, his personal data is scattered through the personal accounts of numerous so-called "personal data operators", after which their effective protection becomes almost impossible.
The key thesis is that everyone should have a RESIDENT status in the LEGAL information space and a MONOPOLY right to own ALL their personal DIGITAL data.(V.Samokhvalov © 2025)
The implementation of the resident status should be carried out by providing each person in the legal network space with legally registered ownership of a Personal Resident Server (PRS), which becomes a monopoly aggregator and keeper of a lifetime archive of personal digital data of a person. The monopoly right of a person to own and manage his personal digital data must be declared, secured legally and technologically.

The issue of granting a person the right to manage their data is being actively discussed on the Internet, but so far these are half-measures in a poorly protected non-legal environment. Only the uncompromising implementation of the principle of monopoly will lead to a radical redirection of information flows, a change in network topology and ensuring its security.

The resident status of a person will lead to an increase in the significance, equipment and security of a citizen in the processes of social interaction.

A full-fledged inclusive information model of society makes it possible and dictates the need to replace the traditional, legally untenable formula about the people as a source of power with the concept of citizens as subjects of government. The residency of each citizen in the information space will make it possible to fully take into account the personal opinions, needs and wishes of citizens in all their subjectivity, individuality, dynamism and diversity, which will enable making error-free management decisions.

The global society and the IT community must realize the criticality of the current situation and take decisive coordinated measures to create a highly secure unified global legal environment for business and financial communications, ensuring human residency, sovereignty of national domains and interstate cooperation.

This is necessary and possible.