Socio-technical issues for ubiquitous information society in 2010

Author

Funabashi, Motohisa ; Homma, Koichi ; Sasaki, Toshiro ; Sato, Yoshinori ; Kido, Kunihiko ; Fukumoto, Takashi ; Yano, Kojin

Author_Institution

Syst. Dev. Lab., Hitachi Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan

Volume

2

fYear

2005

fDate

10-12 Oct. 2005

Firstpage

1978

Abstract

The impact of ubiquitous information technology on society has been so powerful that it has generated an urgent and immediate need for directing technological development and preparing institutional apparatus. This paper endeavors to identify and predict the socio-technical issues that face the ubiquitous information society by 2010, by investigating the social implications of emerging technology, as well as social expectations. To study the issues, we developed scenarios that describe hypothetical situations in the ubiquitous information society. The derived issues cover integrating information technology and human body, producing smart sharable environments, protecting individual rights, fostering new service businesses, and forming self-evolving communities.

Keywords

socio-economic effects; ubiquitous computing; smart sharable environments; socio-technical issues; technological development; ubiquitous information society; Ambient intelligence; Appropriate technology; Information technology; Laboratories; Power generation; Privacy; Protection; Radiofrequency identification; Social implications of technology; Ubiquitous computing; Ubiquitous information society; scenarios; social implications;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2005 IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9298-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.2005.1571437

Filename

1571437