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Digital Society – Opportunity or Threat? Case Studies of Japan and the Czech Republic

ZÁKLASNÍK, M. PUTNOVÁ, A.

Original Title

Digital Society – Opportunity or Threat? Case Studies of Japan and the Czech Republic

Type

journal article in Scopus

Language

English

Original Abstract

Digital technologies, autonomous systems, and artificial intelligence are seen as mater‑of‑course parts of the world today. Japan, as one of the leading countries in technological innovations, is the most advanced in terms of approach to digital society. Japanese society and government have been working on a new concept of life where all the digital technologies will communicate through the internet. Society organised in this way is called Society 5.0 – super Smart society. In Japan, this concept is centred about seventeen sustainable goals (United Nations, 2018). Society 5.0 is a reaction to the fundamental technological revolutionary changes known today as Industry 4.0. Thus, Society 5.0 is the consequence of a technological revolution that will eventually affect not just the production but all parts of today’s life as well. The new technologies evoke some fundamental philosophical and existential questions. How can technological advances improve the prosperity and functioning of society? What about the privacy and security of all the users? The present paper compares Japan and the Czech Republic from the perspective of digitalization of society based on three main aspects: government programs supporting digital technologies, number of technically educated experts and investments in science and research. The objective is to find out how much the Czech Republic has advanced towards preparations for digital society. © 2019 Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry Brno. All rights reserved.

Keywords

Society 5.0, Japan, Czech Republic, digital society.

Authors

ZÁKLASNÍK, M.; PUTNOVÁ, A.

Released

26. 8. 2019

Publisher

ACTA UNIVERSITATIS AGRICULTURAE ET SILVICULTURAE MENDELIANAE BRUNENSIS

Location

Brno

ISBN

1211-8516

Periodical

Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis

Year of study

2019

Number

67

State

Czech Republic

Pages from

1085

Pages to

1095

Pages count

11

URL

https://acta.mendelu.cz/67/4/1085/

BibTex

@article{BUT159555,
  author="Martin {Záklasník} and Anna {Putnová}",
  title="Digital Society – Opportunity or Threat? Case Studies of Japan and the Czech Republic",
  journal="Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis",
  year="2019",
  volume="2019",
  number="67",
  pages="1085--1095",
  doi="10.11118/actaun201967041085",
  issn="1211-8516",
  url="https://acta.mendelu.cz/67/4/1085/"
}