Society 5.0 and Social Development: Contributions to a Discussion

Abstract

This opinion article intends to address the emergence of what will, potentially, be a central concept in a very near future, that of Society 5.0, and that emerges politically as a (con)sequence of the implementation of the concept of Industry 4.0. By proposing a deepening of the potential of the individual-technology relationship in fostering the improvement of the quality of life of all people through a super-intelligent society, Society 5.0 is an extremely recent concept as a guide for social development and that can have a profound impact on societies at all levels, such as in terms of the quality of life and sustainability. This presentation is based on very recent publications, but it also has a prospective component, which always generates some indeterminacy and uncertainty. Also for this reason, this contribution seeks, above all, to help in this very urgent and necessary discussion. Keywords: society 5.0; industry 4.0; social development; sustainable innovation 2. Industry 4.0 Industry 4.0 is very often regarded as somehow a fourth industrial revolution due to the profound effects it brings

Who Will Be the Members of Society 5.0? Towards an Anthropology of Technologically Posthumanized Future Societies

“…Such notions of "cyber-physical society" might be seen as conceptual forebears of the Society 5.0 paradigm that has now been developed within Japan-as well as of the similar concept of "Societies 5.0" that has been formulated independently by Wang et al (2016) and Wang et al (2018) in a manner that also builds on the concept of cyber-physical-social systems but is not directly related to the Japanese Society 5.0 paradigm. Ferreira and Serpa (2018) make the link between cyber-physical systems and Society 5.0 explicit when they highlight Medina-Borja's assertion that the "new realm" of Society 5.0 will encompass a "cyber-physical world" that functions almost symbiotically alongside "the human world" (Medina-Borja 2017, p. 235). Yasuura (2017, p. 221), too, explicitly describes Society 5.0 as a society that has truly become a "Cyber-Physical System" that "is the mixture of the real world and the cyber world connected by ICT"; such cyber-physicalization of its world helps distinguish Society 5.0 from the four preceding stages of human society.…”

“…As part of its Fifth Science and Technology Basic Plan, in 2016, the Government of Japan (2016a, 2016b) announced its intention of realizing "Society 5.0", a transformative and strategically critical next stage in the development of Japanese society that will involve "merging the physical space (real world) and cyberspace by leveraging ICT to its fullest" (Government of Japan 2016a, p. 13), thereby providing "a common societal infrastructure for prosperity based on an advanced service platform" (Iwano et al 2017, p. 1). Japanese governmental agencies, universities, and businesses are actively collaborating in development and implementation of the Society 5.0 paradigm (Government of Japan 2016b; Harayama 2017; Prasetyo and Arman 2017; Shibata et al 2017;Ding 2018;Ferreira and Serpa 2018;Fujii et al 2018).…”

“…1.1.1. Society 5.0's Application of the Industry 4.0 Paradigm As Ferreira and Serpa (2018) explain in their review of the state of thinking on Society 5.0, Japan's Society 5.0 initiative is grounded in the "Industry 4.0" paradigm (Gorecky et al 2014;Lasi et al 2014;Kang 2018) that was developed in Germany in the first half of this decade. In essence, Society 5.0 seeks to take the rapidly evolving technologies that Industry 4.0 employs for production within businesses and to integrate them more deeply into the everyday lives of ordinary people.…”

“…While manifestations of the Industry 4.0 paradigm focus on applying emerging technologies to enhance organizations' effectiveness, efficiency, and (ultimately) financial performance, the Society 5.0 initiative seeks to counterbalance that commercial emphasis by applying emerging technologies relating to social robotics, embodied AI, the Internet of Things, ambient intelligence, augmented and virtual reality, and advanced human-computer interfaces to qualitatively enhance the lives of individual human beings and to benefit society as a whole. If the Industry 4.0 paradigm is understood as focusing on creation of the "smart factory" (Hozdić 2015;Ferreira and Serpa 2018), then Society 5.0 is geared toward creating the world's first "Super Smart Society" (Government of Japan 2016a, p. 11, 2016b, p. 1; Iwano et al 2017, p. 1;Harayama 2017; Ferreira and Serpa 2018).…”

Strategi Smart Test Dalam Pembelajaran Latsar CPNS di Era Society 5.0

“…Salah satu persiapan yang dapat dilakukan adalah melalui pembekalan SDM baru dalam hal ini CPNS agar memiliki sikap-perilaku dan kompetensi yang sesuai dengan tuntutan pergeseran budaya society 5.0. Diperlukan cara berpikir yang kreatif dan inovatif untuk dapat turut serta dalam kemajuan ini (Ferreira & Serpa, 2018).…”