An Information Communication System Suitable for Individuality Valuing Society

Abstract

People want to have individuality valuing society in which they can find their worth while life and create new cultures useful for human being in the big changes of social environments in the 21st century. But it is difficult to realize such society by present efficiency oriented social systems. In this paper, necessary conditions for new work fields suitable for such society and classfication of work fields are shown and an information communication system satisfying necessary conditions is proposed. As main necessary conditions, to more value individuality, to be more suitable for creative work, to be adaptable to high aged society and so forth are taken up and as classes of work fields, three types of hardware, semi-hardware and software are proposed. And it is pointed out that hereafter, semi-hardware type of work fields will become more important. The proposed system is a distributed multimedia information communication system. This system has functions of agents which execute on behalf of users not only information retreaval but also teleaction by using auditory, visual and moreover tactile media. And an example of this system applied to a manufacturing company is shown.