The Wellbeing Society, the New Economy?

Science does not exists to enlighten people’s minds only. It mainly exists to show the educated way from quanta to qualia. From mere, sterilized economic facts to the Society of Wellbeing, at least theoretically. Amazing possibility on the one hand and frustrating inaction on the other, that is the yin and yang of current science and technology. Our society is an arbitrary complex multiscale system of systems of purposive actors within continuous change. Present planetary problems are multiscale-order deficiencies from the past, obsolete, Western, human reductionist worldview. They cannot be fixed by the usual, traditional, hierarchical approach alone, by doing what we do better or more intensely, but rather by changing the way we do. The Western fourth industrial technology revolution will reshape the virtual world, and the large amount of data available on the Internet will make more difficult to sift through and separate fact from fiction quickly, contributing to the exponential grow of ontological uncertainty. This revolution will be a major cultural, social and economic revolution than a technical one. From this perspective, it will be interesting to follow what will happen on the Eastern side of the world, to all the Japan’s initiatives which fall under the "Society 5.0" umbrella name. 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. In the past decades, we learned how traditional human-made system can be quite fragile to unexpected perturbation, because statistics by itself can fool you, unfortunately. We need a definitive, antifragile solution to the problem of the logical relationship between human experience and reliable knowledge extraction. Therefore, in order to achieve an antifragile behavior, next generation human-made system must have a new fundamental component, able to address and to face effectively the problem of multiscale ontological uncertainty management, in an instinctively sustainable way: wisdom by design! The main points to let that path emerge will be presented.