Walking Through Society 5.0
A massive wave of change is currently sweeping the globe. Digital transformation is an unstoppable trend that is fundamentally altering many facets of society, including the way government functions, the way industries are organized, how people work, and how they live their private lives.
There are various ways that technical advancement will advance society. While technology may lead to advantages like increased living standards and more convenience, it may also have drawbacks like an influence on employment, widening disparities, and unequal distribution of money and knowledge.
Which route we move in is entirely up to us. Instead of attempting to predict the type of society that will exist, we must think about the type of society that we want to build.
People will be required to use their vivid imaginations to find solutions to the many needs and problems that exist in society. They will also need to be creative in order to implement these solutions using digital technology and data. In Society 5.0, we’ll live in a “Imagination Society,” where technological advancement and the creativity of all kinds of individuals come together to “solve problems” and “create value,” which help us move toward sustainable growth. It is an idea that can aid in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that the United Nations has set.
Super-smart AI data systems will be used in Society 5.0, a human-centered society that strikes a balance between economic growth and technological development to address societal issues. It represents a fresh perspective on a society made smarter, where people, nature, and technology coexist in a sustainable equilibrium that is strengthened by data.
Digitization is a tool for Society 5.0, but people must still play a key role. Technology-driven innovation has historically been the driving force behind societal evolution, but in the future, we’ll think differently and concentrate on creating a society that makes people feel happy and valuable. We emphasize society since it serves as the basis for human life for this reason.
The economy is expanding, life is becoming more prosperous and convenient, there is a rise in the demand for food and energy, people are living longer, and the aging society is progressing. Additionally, economic globalization is advancing, global competition is getting tougher, and issues like wealth concentration and regional inequality are getting worse. The social issues that must be resolved in opposition to such economic progress have grown more complicated.
Likewise, dystopia or utopia can be produced by today’s exponential disruptive technology. In the next 50 years, they will be a part of the largest evolutionary acceleration in human history and evolution, which will change humanity more than it has ever been. The biggest disruption to human society is already occurring, and it is being caused by the manipulation of entire societies through social media, fake news, and dark data. The biggest obstacles, though, are still to come. They will take the shape of social AI engineering, bioengineering, and health genetic modification.
A Human Centered Society
In Society 5.0, the creation of new value through innovation will close gaps in geography, age, gender, and language and make it possible to provide goods and services that are precisely suited to the needs of various individuals as well as unmet needs. It will be feasible to create a society in this way that can both encourage economic growth and find solutions to social issues.
In Society 5.0, super intelligence will be added to humanity, and there will be constant dialogue between the best academic research, science, a new dawn of evolution, propelled by tech innovation, and all social agents.
Liberties in Society 5.0
People will be released from a variety of restrictions that earlier iterations up through Society 4.0 were unable to get beyond in Society 5.0, giving them the opportunity to pursue a variety of values and lifestyles.
People will be freed from the pressure to be effective. Instead, a focus on meeting individual needs, resolving issues, and adding value will be made. People will be able to live, learn, and work without being subjected to factors that stifle uniqueness, such as estrangement due to one’s beliefs and ideals and discrimination based on one’s gender, color, nationality, etc. Everyone will have the opportunity to play a role at any time and from any location, and people will be freed from the inequality brought on by the concentration of money and information.
People will be freed from worry about cyberattacks, disasters, and terrorism and able to live in security thanks to improved safety nets against unemployment and poverty. People will be freed from resource and environmental limitations, and they will be able to live sustainably in any location. In other words, we’ll construct Society 5.0, a place where anyone may add value whenever they want, from anywhere, in safety, and in harmony with the natural world.
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Word Economic Forum. (2019, January 2). Retrieved from World Economic Forum Web Site: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/01/modern-society-has-reached-its-limits-society-5-0-will-liberate-us/