‘Innovation 25’

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Examples Increased autonomy in life of the elderly and people with difficulties,participation in convivial communities Less burdens on caregivers Better handling of stress, less suicides Symbiosis of human, household-robots & devices, and robotic houses Examples Sound development of children with essential social skills and affective understanding Profusion of originality of individuals and diversity of the brain in society  minimization of accidents due to social infrastructures and human errors  Preparation and supply of suitable services for individual preferences and demands Examples  International disaster relief teams operational all over the world.  Intelligent robots, which can help, compensate or replace human activities Health, medicine, care Education, learning, daily life Labor and safety Prevention and treatment of brain disorders Regeneration or prostheses for deteriorated or inured organs Maintenance of the independence for the elderly and people with disabilities decreased burdens on caregivers Improved fostering and learning systems Better life systems More efficient and comfortable socio-economic systems Collaboration of human and machines Disaster and crime prevention Relief of human from dangerous or extremely hard labours and from exposure to dangers Formation of social consensus onwhether/when/where/how apply technologies in society Understanding human beings brain-body-environment system, perception, cognition, behaviours kokoro (mind + spirit +…) Creating robot Creating the brain NOTES 1. Poster Title • Replace the mock-up text of the poster title (”Joint Research Centre”) with the text of your own title. • Keep the original font colour (100c 80m 0y 0k). • Keep the flush-right justification. • Set it in Helvetica Rounded Bold Condensed, if you own the typeface. Otherwise, in Arial, Helvetica or Verdana – plain or bold. • Keep the original font body size (102 pt or, preferably,120 pt) and the title on a single line whenever possible. Reduce the body size and/or set the title on more than one line only if unavoidable. 2. Poster Subtitle • Replace the mock-up text of the poster subtitle (”Place Your Poster Subtitle Here”) with the text of your own subtitle. • Keep the original font colour (black). • Keep the flush-right justification. • Set it in MetaPlusBook-Roman, if you own the typeface. Otherwise, in Arial, Helvetica or Verdana. • Keep the original font body size (72 pt) and the subtitle on a single line whenever possible. Reduce the body size and/or set the subtitle on more than one line only if unavoidable. • If your poster does not have a main subtitle, delete the subtitle mock-up text or its text-box altogether. 3. Poster Main Text and Illustrations • Replace the mock-up text of the poster with your own text. Keep it within the boundaries of the two main-text boxes provided. • Keep the original font colour (black). • Should you need a second colour within your text, use the same one of the poster title (100c 80m 0y 0k). • Keep the flush-left justification. • Set the main text in MetaPlusBook-Roman and the section headings in MetaPlusBold-Roman, if you own the typefaces. Otherwise, the main text in Arial, Helvetica or Verdana, and the section headings in their respective bold weights. • Adjust the font body size and leading to the needs of your own text, depending on its overall length, for optimal display and legibility. • Should you need a second level of text, set it in a smaller body size than that of your main text (and, in the case of photo captions, in italics, too). • Place your illustrations (pictures, graphs, etc.) within the boundaries of the two main-text boxes. Adjust your text-flow as needed. 4. Contact Box • Replace the mock-up contents of the contact box with your own data. • Keep the contact box in place if possible. Place it elsewhere only if unavoidable for layout reasons, but in that case try, at least, to align it with some main element of the poster. 5. Additional Logos • Should you need to display additional logos (e.g., of partner organizations or universities), reduce or enlarge them to a height within those of the JRC logo and the Directorate or Institute logo. • Place any additional logos on the bottom of the poster, evenly spaced between the JRC and (if there is one) the Directorate or Institute logo, and vertically centred with them. Setting of Japanese “social vision toward 2025” ‘Innovation 25’ In September 2006, the then Japanese Prime Minister launched a discussion on innovation as a long-tem strategy looking ahead to 2025. It was named “Innovation 25.” National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP) prepared a report “Social Vision towards 2025” (1) based on its 8th ‘Science and Technology Foresight Surveys’ (2-4, ‘the Surveys’ hereafter). One of six main fields of discussion was set as “support for people’s activities through advances in brain science.” . Both the Surveys and Japanese promotion of brain science had their roots in the awareness of social implication of science and technology in the 1970s after the social turbulence in the previous decade. Inseparable relationship between future-oriented studies and contemporary history of STS was taken into consideration. Inseparable changes in ST, policy and society a case of brain science Support for people's activities through advances in brain science • Development of methodologies for STS proposed in the 1970s is now a part of subjects of ‘Brain Science lato sensu’: such as methodologies for proactive measures, systematic analysis of mutually interacting complex phenomena, support for decision making and creative thinking. A constructivist approach (or synthetic approach) was incorporated into Japanese STS as early as in the 1990s when the theme “Creating the Brain” was set as a national basic plan of brain science. Brain science can be a effective platform to elaborate synthetic approach. Brain science for STS should be promoted intensively as well as STS of brain science. • References • 1. NISTEP, Social vision toward 2025 –Scenario Discussion based on S&T Foresight – [Summary], NISTEP Report No.101, March 2007. • 2. NISTEP, The 8th Science ad Technology Foresight Survey: Delphi Analysis, NISTEP Report No.97, May 2005. • 3. NISTEP, The 8th Science ad Technology Foresight Survey: Scenario Analysis, NISTEP Report No.96, May 2005. • 4. NISTEP, The 8th Science ad Technology Foresight Survey: Study on Social and Economic Needs, NISTEP Report No.94, May 2005. • 5. ISHII, K., ‘Cognitive Science as Science of the Mind’, Science & Technology Trends, Quarterly Review, No.14, p13-25, January 2005. • 6. ISHII, K., ‘Strategies for Reading and Writing Learning Difficulties (Dyslexia)’, Science & Technology Trends, Quarterly Review, No.15, p13-31, April 2005. • 7. ISHII, K., ‘Cognitive Robotics to Understand Human Beings’, Science & Technology Trends, Quarterly Review, No.20, p11-32, July 2006. • 8. ISHII, K., ‘ Brain Science lato sensu’, Science & Technology Trends, Quarterly Review, No.29, in press, October 2008. • Vision of the future proposed in the 1960s • The arrival of the era of information industry • Information of intelligence • Information of sensation • Information of experiments • Coming era of spiritual industry • The participation of each citizen in creative processes of information is indispensable to sustain future society. Science of kokoro (≈ mind + spirit) should play crucial roles for that. Contact ISHII Kayoko NISTEP MEXT Tel. +x81-3-3581- 0605 • Fax +81-3-3503-3996 E-mail: kishii@nistep.go.jp 2008 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE