The Financial Times noted that the pattern in France latest election was echoed in the 2016 Brexit referendum, in the USA presidential election and in the recent Dutch election. The standard way of describing those political forces is "populist." Populism means a politics of the people, juxtaposed against a politics of the elites. But in the USA at least, Trump's ideology, which has little to do with traditional Republican conservatism, frames the axis of division not as the many versus the few, but as nationalists versus globalists. But there might be a deeper explanation. The incoming Western fourth industrial technology revolution will be a major cultural, social and economic revolution than a technical one, contributing to the exponential grow of "uncertainties" felt by people. As long as physical survival is perceived as uncertain, the desire for physical and economic security tends to take higher priority than democracy. Because of these uncertainties, industry will create reform on its own initiative to lead the world. From this perspective, it will be interesting to follow what will happen on the Eastern side of the world, to the Japan's initiatives which fall under "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 this paper, we bring to light some fundamental components, according to our personal experience, and formulated the proposal for a new understanding of them, at an effective scientific and operative level.

Perceived Uncertainties and Political Supremacy

Fiorini, Rodolfo A.
2017-01-01

Abstract

The Financial Times noted that the pattern in France latest election was echoed in the 2016 Brexit referendum, in the USA presidential election and in the recent Dutch election. The standard way of describing those political forces is "populist." Populism means a politics of the people, juxtaposed against a politics of the elites. But in the USA at least, Trump's ideology, which has little to do with traditional Republican conservatism, frames the axis of division not as the many versus the few, but as nationalists versus globalists. But there might be a deeper explanation. The incoming Western fourth industrial technology revolution will be a major cultural, social and economic revolution than a technical one, contributing to the exponential grow of "uncertainties" felt by people. As long as physical survival is perceived as uncertain, the desire for physical and economic security tends to take higher priority than democracy. Because of these uncertainties, industry will create reform on its own initiative to lead the world. From this perspective, it will be interesting to follow what will happen on the Eastern side of the world, to the Japan's initiatives which fall under "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 this paper, we bring to light some fundamental components, according to our personal experience, and formulated the proposal for a new understanding of them, at an effective scientific and operative level.
2017
Proceedings of the International Conference on Globalism vs. Nationalism
super smart society, wellbeing society, Fourth Industrial Revolution, Society 5.0, ontological uncertainty, worldview, creativity, innovation, political supremacy, New Economic Theory, NET
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