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4.2 Society 5.0: Economic Development and a Human-centred Society

The current society is changing around the world, and experimenting drastic changes. The economical
development has positive effects on people lifestyles, making it more prosperous and convenient, with a
longer life expectancy and an aging society. The development and globalization interconnect the different
activities and processes, increasing competitivity and problems regarding wealth and resources inequality.
Therefore, problems regarding social issues and environmental concerns are fomenting the need of
solutions such as the support of sustainable inequality and redistribution of wealth, among others, in order
to create and build economic and social growth.

New technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence and big data, can be used for encouraging progress and
fight the challenges that the current society is facing. Japan is aiming to implement innovation and
technologies in order to tackle the challenges and achieve economic growth and solutions to social
problems.

The Society 5.0 aims to abolish differentiation and to diminish the challenges that the society faces. It
works towards the elimination of regional, gender, language and age gaps. Furthermore, it permits the
provision of products and services tailored to the preferences and needs to each individual.

Source: (Japanese Cabinet Office, 2019)

In addition, the convergence between physical space and cyberspace allows and enable robots and
Artificial Intelligence information to be used to support or assist the needs or the work and tasks the
human has done until now. The new society enables the optimization of the society and the organizational
system, enables people to perform and have what they need at the time they needed it, eliminating those
activities that are a cumbersome work of the human. Japan aims to achieve all these aspects, becoming
a human centred society with high quality of life (UNESCO, 2019).