Society 5.0

Industry of the Future, Technologies, Methods and Tools

Bruno Salgues

• Publisher: Wiley-ISTE
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9781786303011
• eBook ISBN: 9781119527633
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Following the rapid development of connected technologies, which are now highly sophisticated and spread across the globe, Society 5.0 has emerged and brought with it a dramatic societal shift.

 In 1998, Kodak, the world leader in photographic film, had 170,000 employees. It thus seemed unthinkable that just 3 years later, the majority of people would stop taking photographs to paper film and that Kodak would have disappeared. These are the stakes of this new society that is taking shape.

 This book, which does not seek to critique current politics, management or marketing literature, aims to fight against the excesses of this often-misunderstood Society 5.0 and to present the ideas and associated technologies that comprise it, all working towards societal improvement. Among these technologies, artificial intelligence, robotics, digital platforms and 3D printing are undoubtedly the most important, and thus receive the greatest focus.

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Society 5.0, Its Logic and Its Construction

The main theme of this book is the description of society and of everything which surrounds it, that is to say, what has been defined as the fifth societal wave.

1.1. The origins of society 5.0

The term “society 5.0” first appeared in Japan in 2016. Since then, it has been spreading and its underlying concepts continue to be shaped.

Society 5.0 is a term used in the Fifth Science and Technology Basic Plan, reviewed by the Japanese Government’s Council for Science, Technology, and Innovation. It was enforced by the Japanese Cabinet of Ministers in January 2016.

DEFINITION. “Society 5.0” can be defined as a “society of intelligence”, in which physical space and cyberspace are strongly integrated.

Society 5.0 emerged from the hunter-gatherer society, the agricultural society, the industrial society and the information society. Although focused on humanity, 5.0 refers to a new type of society where innovation in science and technology occupies a prominent place, with the aim of balancing social and societal issues that need to be solved, while ensuring economic development. Although it borrows many of its elements, this approach is opposed to that of the proponents of decline.

The Japanese have introduced society 5.0, by illustrating it with Figure 1.1.

Figure 1.1. Definition of society 5.0. For a color version of the figure, see www.iste.co.uk/salgues/society.zip

The “basic plan for science and technology” is a comprehensive plan for the promotion of science and technology, decided by the Japanese Government and incorporated into a fundamental law, which will be positioned in the next decade, in the same way as the European H2020 bid solicitations. The fifth basic plan (2017–2021) is the first one for Japanese governments. This law establishes a Council for Science, Technology, and Innovation (CSTI). Thanks to an array of different measures, it strongly favors innovation policies for science and technology. The plan has been brought forward as a model for a wide range of stakeholders, including government, the university environment, the industry and citizens, so as to co-build the society of tomorrow. It also aims to guide Japan so that it can become “the most favorable country for innovation”.

This plan is sharply different from the innovative strategic axes proposed by the French Minister of Economy, Arnaud Montebourg, and amended by his successor, Emmanuel Macron. In Europe, countries have defined industrialization axes in general, and this was certainly the case in France. The Ministry for Productive Recovery in office in those times translated the priorities of the French industrial policy into 34 plans, which were designed for coordinating the actions of public actors and companies. The announced aim was to favor the emergence of the products of the future under the label “Made in France”.

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Box 1.1. The initial 34 industrial plans

• – Big Data
• – Cloud computing
• – Connected objects
• – Augmented reality
• – Embedded software and embedded systems
• – Contactless services
• – E-education
• – Digital Hospitals
• – Cybersecurity
• – Nanoelectronics
• – Robotics
• – Supercomputers
• – Innovation in the food industry
• – TGV of the future
• – Two liters per 100 km vehicle for all
• – Autopilot vehicles
• – Electric recharging terminals
• – Battery autonomy and power
• – Electric planes and a new generation of aircrafts
• – Electrically propelled satellites
• – Heavy load airships
• – Ecological ships
• – Renewable energies
• – Smart electrical networks
• – Water quality and management of scarcity
• – Medical biotechnologies
• – Innovative medical devices
• – Telecommunications sovereignty
• – Wood industry
• – Recycling and green materials
• – Thermal renovation of buildings
• – Green chemistry and biofuel
• – Technical and intelligent textiles
• – Factory of the future

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When his successor, Emmanuel Macron, took office, he reduced Montebourg’s industrial plans from 34 to 10. The plan was associated with goals. These 10 plans were broken down into 9 specific plans, and 1 particular and transversal plan called “Usine du future” (“Factory of the future”). This approach was considered more important than others. The “Industry of the future” approach sought to develop a technological offer, by accompanying the transformation of companies, training employees, and with a strong emphasis on international cooperation.

Table 1.1. Emmanuel Macron’s nine specific plans

Plan	Contents	Goals
New resources	Biosource and recycled materials	2020: to double the volume of raw material of vegetal origin in the French chemical industry, increase nondangerous waste recycling by 50%
Sustainable city	Water, smart grid, thermal renovation, wood industry	2020: 100 billion euros turnover and more than 110,000 territorialized jobs
Ecological mobility	2 L/100 vehicle, charging station, autonomous vehicle, energy storage	2016: 20,000 recharge stations^1 2020: 30% decrease in CO2 emissions of new vehicles manufactured in France
Transport of the future	TGV, ecological ships, electric planes, electric airships and drones	2020: to sell 80 electrically run school-planes, undated 50% decrease in energy consumption of buildings
Medicine of the future	Digital health, medical biotechnologies, medical devices	2017: 50,000 patients with a chronic disease under medical remote monitoring^2 2025: to reestablish the French trade balance in terms of medical technology, whose current deficit is equivalent to 1 billion euros
Data economy	Big Data, supercomputer, Cloud Computing	2020: to create and consolidate 137,000 jobs thanks to Big Data, to master the critical technology of exascale supercomputers, which make it possible to perform 1 billion operations per second
Intelligent objects	Connected objects, robotics, augmented reality, contactless services, innovative textiles	2020: 8 million customers using mobile payment methods, to deploy an interoperable ticketing app to be used in 50% of cities with more than 200,000 inhabitants
Digital trust	Cybersecurity, telecom...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Table of Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• Introduction
• 1 Society 5.0, Its Logic and Its Construction
• 2 From Society 5.0 to Its Associated Policies
• 3 Industry 4.0 at the Core of Society 5.0
• 4 The City and Mobility 3.0
• 5 Information Technology 2.0, the Foundation of Society 5.0
• 6 Society 5.0 and the Management of the Future
• 7 The Consequences of the End of Major Innovations
• 8 Innovation in Society 5.0
• 9 “Co” Society
• 10 The Challenges of Localization, the Market, Skills and Knowledge
• 11 On-Demand Society
• 12 The Economy of Society 5.0
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index
• End User License Agreement