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– "Mobile native" for global digital nomads:

• Global citizenship/community and digital native/immigrants/nomad;
• Smart seniors in an aging society;
• Cultural convergence by utilizing information and communication technologies;
• Accumulation of people's knowledge: expecting new democracy and virtual space for new
agora world.
– "Free economy" on collaborative consumption:
• Sharing culture and economy by utilizing social networking services;
• Privacy collapse and new opportunity of statistics information from community interests.
– "The third industrial revolution" for sharing information (by Jeremy Rifkin [16]):

• Energy Internet and industrial Internet, great escapes from telecommunication and broadcast
business;
• Global integration of online/offline markets and e-commerce;

• Global reorganization of job/labour markets and human resources.
For the establishment of a creative, trustworthy, and knowledge eco-society, first the information and
communication technology can help enormously increase the overall productivity of other industries such as
energy, transportation, education, health, safety, and environment, etc., as shown in Figure 9. Second, the
new paradigm toward the connected world will be open to realize communication among human-to-human,
human-to-machine, and machine-to-machine. In addition, virtual reality technologies may be used to bridge
between the physical world and the cyber world. Interdisciplinary activities among people are expected to
search for new discoveries of knowledge and intelligence. The ICT infrastructure should be well structured to
open new windows of discovery relying on human intelligence. It should also enable new innovations on
education, energy, transportation, nano-, and bio-technologies, etc.

From the perspective of productivity, the information and communication technologies enable to improve
the productivity of traditional industries. During the last ten years, the growth of the global economy is
primarily due to utilizing ICTs. ICTs can provide significant benefits on convergence industries which are
abbreviated by energy+ICT, health+ICT, and transport+ICT, etc. Until now, the lack of investments in the ICT
infrastructure might have been the cause in the slow process of the economy. This is why ICT is an important
enabler to drive the add-on values on productivity.

Second, from the perspective of communication, there is a wide range of ICT applications such as telephony
and television as well as e-mail, etc. Recently, with the progress of IoT/M2M technologies, the human-to-
machine and machine-to-machine communication are widely under development. Some software and
devices help people record, store, process, retrieve, transfer, and receive information. To help public safety
in metropolitan regions, some IoT devices enable new peer-to-peer services and location-based
applications. Humans can communicate with sensors by abstraction or artefact of objects. Data visualization
can help communication between humans and objects.
Third, from the perspective of new discovery based on human intelligence, ICTs can provide a more efficient
and effective platform to explore new science and technology areas. In some specific areas, people find it
difficult to learn a certain knowledge. By an optimum utilization of the computing and storage systems,
people can get great help to find, compare, and analyse the facts and experimental results. A group of people
among different communities can make a discussion and collect their opinions from various principles and
theories. ICTs provide a collaborative platform for billions of people with unlimited storage and processing
capacity, which can open new windows to discover knowledge for education, energy, transportation, nano-
and bio-technology, etc. The complex system which has been almost impossible to handle by analytical and
statistical methods of the existing science and technology can be solved, for example, to forecast the weather
and analyse the human genome.

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