Year 2020: Symbiotic computing towards post-modern information systems

Economic super cycles also known as "Kondratiev waves" closely related to the innovation of new technologies and its wide spread applications. If we follow the time span of this cycle, the next peak is expected to arrive around 2020. With the advancement of computer and communication technologies, a transformation from the current information society to a new society can be perceived which we named as "Symbiosis Society." As it is always observed that the invention of new technologies has made a huge impact on our life-style and society. Industrial revolution brings the modern era and the rationality, which consists of higher efficiency, better economy and improved functionality. But in search for a better and convenient life we forget to take care of the universe and its environment. A prime example is the undeniable phenomenon of global warming. In spite of that many developed countries are still reluctant to take bold steps to prevent further deterioration of world atmosphere. In midst of such deliberation, Japan has taken a very courageous step to control the green gas emission to reduce it by 25% within next 10 years. But to achieve this ambitious target to Green, I think we need a new criterion, in addition to the rationality of modern age. None other advancement is as rapid as computer and internet. They had penetrated so much, thus it has become almost impossible to think our life without them. And in future they will only grow wider and faster. We have already witnessed that, invention of new technologies has made a huge impact in our life style and the society itself. Though it may provide various advantages and convenience, at the same time many social problems have also arisen. To solve these problems, we need an additional criterion, which we call\´ \´. We believe that this new criterion along with the existing modern age rationality will lead us to the ultimate success and we can achieve a world which is both technologically efficient and environment - riendly. We call this as Post Modern Society that is Green and Symbiosis Society, which will be realized around year 2020. Present Modern Society is based on ubiquitous information environment, which can be considered as consisting of two computing aspects: Mobile Computing and Pervasive Computing. We then introduced advance ubiquitous computing where human and information systems will co-exist in a cooperative manner to the betterment of life and society, and to alleviate the predefined problems. We proposed a new 3rdaxis, comprised of symbiosis (nature and human) in addition to the existing ubiquitous computing to realize advance ubiquitous computing. By integrating these three axes, we created the Symbiotic Computing paradigm. From there a Symbiosis information system can be realized.