From Industry 4.0 to Society 5.0: the big societal transformation plan of Japan
What better place to present a vision for a ‘super-smart society’ to the West, which you call Society 5.0 than Germany, the land of Industrie 4.0 or Industry 4.0?
That’s exactly what CeBIT 2017 partner country Japan is doing at the annual gathering of the German, and increasingly international, tradeshow/conference. Note: Japan doesn’t launch the Society 5.0 vision at CeBIT, it already shared that vision in 2016.
Japan has its particular challenges and just as Industry 4.0 is the digital transformation of manufacturing, Society 5.0 aims to tackle several challenges by going far beyond just the digitalization of the economy towards the digitalization across all levels of the Japanese society and the (digital) transformation of society itself. And that has some pretty far-reaching consequences as you’ll read.
At an event at CeBIT 2017, “Society 5.0 – Another Perspective”, the road to that super-smart society turned out to be paved with an important role for technologies in areas such as the Internet of Things, AI (artificial intelligence), cyber-physical systems, VR/AR, Big Data (analytics), the full list. Yet, it’s not just about technologies.
