Engineering for the Next Generation

Abstract

The Industrial Society since the Industrial Revolution is getting close to its ceiling and many issues are emerging. Now is the time to prepare for the next generation society. This paper discusses what engineering we should develop for tomorrow. In the current industrial society, we have been working for others and engineering has been full of sophisticated technologies. But this framework consumes tremendous amount of energy and we are not truly happy, because we work for others. We feel most satisfied and are filled with the highest sense of achievement, when we do a job which is internally motivated and which we self-decide. Thus, the self-sustaining society is desired for the next generation. To achieve this goal, engineering should move away from working for others to enjoying our own life. We should develop a pleasurable world. This is nothing other than establishing true service. Service in the true sense means making every stakeholder or everybody concerned happy. To achieve this, we need to coordinate many elements and let them work together as a team, as IoT proposes Things Team, where man and machine work together on the same team. In fact, orchestration is now getting attention in computing. Therefore, we are now ready to move ahead toward developing an enjoyable life. And it should be emphasized instinct, which has been ignored up to now, will play an important role in the next generation.