The progress of Industry 4.0 is characterized by the rapid change of the business and social environment and by continuous growth. The importance is not only given to the business, but also to the social impacts of the Industry 4.0 concept. This new way of operating businesses and the increase in digitalization also lead to changes in society, and this impact on society is called Society 5.0.
The concept of Society 5.0 gained wide coverage for the first time in a famous speech entitled “Hannover Declaration”, delivered at CeBIT 2017 in Hannover, Germany, when the Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, outlined the vision of Society 5.0. In this concept, taking into account the technological change in the industry, we must focus on the general well-being of citizens and seek a super-intelligent society.
As the economy grows, the demand for energy and food increases, life expectancy becomes longer, and the aging of society also advances. In addition, the globalization of the economy is advancing and international competition is becoming increasingly fierce, increasing problems such as the concentration of wealth and regional inequality. This involves recognizing that there is a limit to what people can do and that humans can have a better life by benefiting from the latest technological tools.
It is about how to solve social challenges by incorporating the innovations of the fourth industrial revolution, such as: IoT, Big Data, artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and the shared economy, in all sectors and aspects of social life. As a result, the society of the future will be focused on adding value and continuously evolving, to make people's lives more comfortable and sustainable.
With Society 5.0, digitalization is a means, but professionals remain fundamental players. Traditionally, technology-driven innovation has been responsible for social development, but in the future, the tendency is to reverse our way of thinking, focusing on how to build a society that provides us with a sense of value.
And the biggest challenges are yet to come. They will come in the form of genetic modification for health, bioengineering, and social AI engineering. We left the common practice of collecting information over the network for analysis. In Society 5.0, people, items, and systems are all connected in cyberspace, creating ideal results obtained by AI that are directly returned to physical space. This process adds new value to industry and society in ways that were not possible before.
By having technology, nature, and society systems operating in a balanced scope, we can maintain an efficient building, providing energy for a smart city, ensuring that all services provided by that city are efficient and available. This is achieved thanks to a high degree of convergence between cyberspace and physical space.
In Society 5.0, the new value created through innovation will eliminate regional age, gender, and language gaps and will allow the provision of products and services perfectly adjusted to diverse individual and latent needs. In this way, it will be possible to build a society that both promotes economic development and finds solutions to social problems.
The concept of society 5.0 is the vision of a sustainable human nature and technological society, where people, nature and technology find a circular economy of balance in intelligent digital transformation, encompassing constant communication between the best of science, driven by technological innovation and all agents of society.
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