New Edition of Creating a Super Free Society 3: Will it create a new Renaissance?

■ New Edition of Creating a Super Free Society 3: Will it create a new Renaissance?

　Recent book "New Edition of Creating a Super Free Society: After Coronavirus is the Era of Cats." An excerpt is below.

From Chapter 1 "Super Coronavirus Strategy".

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○ Will it create a new Renaissance?

Congratulations. Fushimi Inari, Koyasan, Zenkoji Temple, Naritasan, Tsukiji Hongwanji. Temples and shrines in various places live-streamed the first temple and shrine visits of 2021. New Year's Day crowds were sparse, but the online carnival was bright. Higashi Honganji has made offerings cashless. Shimogamo Shrine made omikuji a QR code. There were Gacha. Some places sell amulet tickets for a fee. Some of these costs are covered by crowdfunding. The New Year's scenery changed. “Carnival” (The Cardigans)

What will be different after Coronavirus than before Coronavirus? The first is decentralized and virtual. It will be an irreversible chemical change in society, and we will not return to the pre-Coronavirus situation. It is also about rebuilding communities and communication digitally.

Humans have been urbanizing for thousands of years. Civilization is the history of cities. The theme was concentration and accumulation. The inhabitants defended themselves with walls. However, in the 14th century, the plague spread within the walls, killing 20% of the world.

War, nuclear weapons, divisive religions, economic crises, all come from civilization. No, no. It's selfish to die then. The enemies of mankind are natural disasters and pathogens. By concentrating in cities, both may shorten our own lives. We have long learned that cities are clusters of germs.

"Attack on Titan" may have been a sign of Coronavirus. The savage civilization you keep within your walls is devoured by ominous giants. The wilderness outside is also the realm of mindless and intelligent giants and enigmatic myths. The inhabitants inside the walls will have no choice but to panic and fight.

IT and transportation were the means of overturning urban concentration into punk. From the latter half of the 20th century to the present century, an advanced information society and a highly mobile society were built. We now have the means to communicate digitally anytime, anywhere, and move anywhere, anytime.

In the 1980s, when I was just starting out as a member of society, I often heard the phrase “do it while here" in the advanced information society theory. With the development of telecommunications, people can work, go to school, shop, and have fun while they are home. Banzai at home. A multi-polar distributed country will be formed by correcting the unipolar concentration in Tokyo. People will leave the city and live in luxury in the countryside.

So what happened? Urban concentration is progressing more and more. The population of Tokyo increased from 10 million in 1962 to 12 million in 2000. Over the next ten years, the number of people increased by 1 million to exceed 14 million. Moreover, it is concentrated in the center.

With the development of IT and transportation, the community sought deeper communication and everyone wanted to be closer. "Do it while here" was a lie. An advanced information society and an advanced mobility society were denied, and a high-density economic society was formed against that prospect. Local distribution? Technology worked in the opposite direction.

Coronavirus is a hammer for that. What? Get away, you guys. Epidemics repeat. Protect yourself with technology. Even if you get it, why don’t you do it? Disperse. Keep your distance. Since the world is connected by IT and transportation, this time the alarm bell will sound not locally but globally. That is the voice I can hear from heaven.

Infection is caused by "concentration and denseness." In order to prevent that, we try to be "distributed and sparse" in IT. Will it stick after Coronavirus? Would you like to say goodbye to the urban civilization you have built over thousands of years and head for the idyllic rural civilization? No, no, that would be an illusion.

Along with the extreme development of IT and transportation that enable decentralization and sparseness, concentration and density have accelerated. I don't think thousands of years of civilization will go backwards any time soon, just because the Coronavirus has sounded the alarm bell. People will still want agglomeration, urban concentration, and smart cities.

However, the online rate and virtual rate should remain high. Telework, which was only 10%, will be able to do about 50%. Only about 10% of universities were able to do digital education, but if they can't do it, they will collapse. It won't be long before the 6% e-commerce rate rises to 20%, which is on par with China.

Universities that have moved to online all at once are starting to see students returning, and hybrid education of virtual + real, online + offline is being explored. Other fields must also design new blends.

Living in the city, close to work and home, secure close and comfortable real + virtual communication and freedom of movement. The era in which centralization and decentralization, denseness and sparseness were opposites has passed, and we are aiming for a society that combines concentration and decentralization, denseness and sparseness through the combination of real and virtual. The new concentrated/dispersed, dense/sparse blend is the "new dense." That new normal should be a better world than before Coronavirus, a world which we choose for ourselves.

In 1996, I wrote a book called “Internet Freedom for Us.” Individuals gain power on the rising net. Expression and transmission will be free, and a TV station with 100 million people will be created. Business will flourish. Overthrow all order. Punk. I want you to set “me” free.

25 years later. Mobile + social has powered up both individuals and organizations. As Professor Negroponte of MIT advocated, the advancement of atoms (real space) to bits (virtual space) has been completed. Business has become digitally driven.

The world's top five companies by market capitalization have become IT companies. Digital is also the main battlefield in the military. The Egyptian system will be overthrown by the connected people, the American president will oppose the mass media on Twitter, China will control the Internet, and the Islamic State will gather overseas young people on the Internet.

"I" became quite free. But my data will be siphoned off by others, and I myself will be monitored by cameras here and there, increasing the degree of control. I wonder if it will fit in a moderate seasoning somewhere. Even so, the Internet is evolving steadily, and AI and blockchain are riding on it, increasing freedom, while nations and regions are strengthening their control, and it is no longer a free paradise.

However, the Internet is still in its early days, a quarter of a century after it began to spread in earnest. It has not reached maturity. What's more, the humans who use it have just stood at the entrance to the digital society, and the etiquette is not fixed.

14th century plague. Is there no heaven? With this, the authority of the church and lords was lowered, the people became stronger, and the Renaissance was born. Art and science were born. The Middle Ages passed and the modern era arrived. So what will the Coronavirus bring? Will Coronavirus give birth to a new Renaissance? What is being born while the earth is struggling now?

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MaaS in Tokyo Bay, we will do it!

■ MaaS in Tokyo Bay, we will do it!

SALON CiP Online. This time, I will talk about MaaS model demonstration experiments in Tokyo, Daiba, and Takeshiba.

Daiba: Mori from Navitime Japan and Tokutake from the Tokyo Rinkai Fukutoshin Community Development Council.

Takeshiba: Eiju from MONET Technologies and Noguchi from Takeshiba Area Management.

And Yonezu, Tokyo.

Hack the Bay Area with futuristic vehicles!

MaaS in Odaiba.

Mobility passes are issued to connect the Rinkai Line and Japan Taxi, allowing users to tour facilities within the area such as Zepp and Fuji TV. Shared bicycles were also used.

Trains, cars, bicycles. Cleared 10,000 downloads goal.

MONET Eiju is Takeshiba's MaaS .

Cars from Toyosu, Harumi, and Oshima are received at Takeshiba and connected to the Hamamatsucho railway.

Ships, cars, trains. Issues such as the high cost of ships were also explored.

Daiba and Takeshiba, two bases straddling Tokyo Bay north and south, mobility experiments are exciting.

I will post my comment.

JR, private railways, and metro lines are densely packed in Tokyo.

Buses and taxis are plentiful.

On the other hand, Tokyo's outstanding feature is that it is a capital with a sea. Neither the G7 nor China, Russia, or India have seas by their capitals.

But we are not using it well. It is also a river city, but it has been closed.

MaaS is the enhancement of land, but I would like to explore the possibilities of ships.

Yonezu from Tokyo says that we will see flying cars in the 2030s.

I want to connect the land and the sea by then.

From Takeshiba  to Toyosu/Harumi, Daiba, Haneda, and Tennozu, I would like the city to be connected in all directions.

Even after Governor Aoshima canceled the city expo, the Tokyo Waterfront City continued to make efforts to create entertainment.

Takeshiba has no face yet.

Even if you say Takeshiba, is it Takebashi? Shibaura? It needs clarity.

Our CiP building has 10,000 people. After this, there will be large-scale development, and it will become a big town with tens of thousands of people. We have to show that face.

An event will be held in July in order to show its face as a pop tech town.

"An interesting future in the near future," "Change Tomorrow," Chomorrow for short.

Chomorrow.

Show the future of pop and tech.

It would be nice if I could send out information at the top of the two with Odaiba, my senior in entertainment. I would like to take cooperative measures.

Make this area the navel of Tokyo, Japan, and the world.

Richard Florida's "Creative City Theory" preaches the importance of the population concentration of bohemians (artists).

Their aesthetic sense of the environment, their tolerance, their cultural openness.

So to speak, how can we attract the "troublesome people"?

Obscenity and a sense of wobbliness become a problem.

Takeshiba is a town built on a white background, but CiP is a gathering of large corporations and is not good at messes.

It's a conundrum.

Attract kids, geeks, and foreigners and have them rampage.

My role is to close my eyes to it, to shut up the old man who is wondering what it is, and to apologize to the world.

After Coronavirus, the city will come back.

The status quo, which is distributed and stationary, returns to accumulation and movement. It should.

IT has accelerated agglomeration and mobility.

Due to Coronavirus, we were once forced to reverse movement, but in the meantime, DX progressed at once.

After DX, after Coronavirus, it will return again. It should.

However, after DX, it has changed to hybrid integration and smart mobility.

That model is not available anywhere in the world.

Hybrid integration is CiP 's homework. Smart mobility is the role of MaaS.

There are challenges such as costs and regulations, but it is an opportunity. I want to work together.

Next is a strategy meeting on a Yakatabune floating in Tokyo Bay with people from Takeshiba, Toyosu/Harumi, Daiba, Haneda, and Tennozu.

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New Edition of Creating a Super Free Society 2: Super Coronavirus Strategy

■ New Edition of Creating a Super Free Society 2: Super Coronavirus Strategy

　My recent book "New Edition of Creating a Super Free society: After Coronavirus is the Era of Cats." An excerpt is below.

From Chapter 1: “Super Coronavirus Strategy.”

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○ Will 20% of us die?

Bang. The earth is trapped in germs. People die, they can't have funerals, they cry. There is no one on whom to vent anger. Economy collapses. Rely on God. Sing. It spreads over an area surpassing that of the plague of the 14th century and the cholera of the 19th century. More areas will be affected than World War II. The Koshien summer has been canceled twice: the rice riot and the Pacific War. World War I and World War II. This is the next incident. War.

The virus, identified in Wuhan, China in January 2020, had infected 80 million people worldwide in early 2021. After World War II, there was the threat of nuclear weapons, regional conflicts, terrorism, earthquakes and typhoons, but nothing like this.

How do you fight an invisible enemy? No, it might not be the opponent to fight. Like a cold or the flu, it may be someone you come to terms with and live with. The plague epidemic killed 20% of the world's population at the time. I pray that this will not happen.

The World Bank predicts that the global economy will grow by minus 4.3% in 2020. The 2020 GDP of the United States has shrunk to the size of 2017. France is expected to drop to 2010 levels and Japan to that of 2012. It's hard. But guess what? Even if 20% of the population is not lost like the plague, if the situation worsens and 20% of the economy is killed, then, do 20% of us die?

No way. The current GDP is 550 trillion yen, and 450 trillion yen, which is 20% less, was in 1990, the bubble period. It was the beginning of the Heisei era. At that time, weren't we unexpectedly happy? Weren't you rich? When the bubble burst, I wasn't too depressed. At the beginning of the Reiwa era, it's okay to have the guts to say that you're depressed. Let's just calm down.

But was the world still so disjointed? Consider each country's system. China's dictatorship boasts that the virus has been suppressed by a thorough blockade and a pursuit that introduced facial recognition technology. France, which has a presidential system, also has strict restrictions on going out and lockdowns. Even with the same presidential system, the United States of the United States has a wide range of regional differences, and the number of infected people has become the world's highest. “Top of the World” (Carpenters)

The United Kingdom, which has the same parliamentary system as Japan, tried its own route to acquire herd immunity, but Prime Minister Johnson was hospitalized for infection and was forced to lock down. In India, where police force people to do push-ups when they go out, the number of infected people in India is second only to the United States. Russia doesn't know what's going on.

Which mechanism works for Coronavirus? No conclusion yet. But this is a global experiment in politics and crisis management. Many success/failure tests are running at the same time. There is no time to wait and respond to the results of other countries. What will be the legacy of this multidimensional experiment in the face of the simultaneous global crisis that will come again?

For Japan, this is the first nationwide crisis that surpasses 3.11 since Japan lost the war. It's still too early to evaluate, but I'm sticking with it for now. As of January 2021, the number of deaths due to Coronavirus is 350,000 in the United States, 150,000 in India, and 75,000 in Italy. Japan has 3,700 deaths. 1/100th that of America. The number of deaths in Japan after Daiichi Coronavirus has decreased overall due to the decrease in deaths from influenza and other diseases.

Whether it's social turmoil or economic depression, it's better than the West. This country, which was defeated in the war and did not give much power to politics, could not even lock down, fortunately or unfortunately. Just declare an emergency and ask for help. Schools, convenience stores, and movie theaters are open. Good for shopping and jogging. Tokyo is very different from what New York, Paris, and London look like.

How much we can suppress the Coronavirus depends on self-restraint and speculation. The effectiveness of the "request" of the national and local governments, which is like air, depends on how much the people who receive it read the atmosphere and respond. Self-restraint self- restraint. Conjecture, conjecture. There is no choice but to rely on these two habits of reading the atmosphere, which are the main culprits that have made Japan shrink in the Heisei period.

There is also a theory that the popular culture was more effective than the measures taken by the government and local governments. Keep your distance even if you don't say no. Don't go to crowds unnecessarily. We don't shake hands in the first place. Greet from a distance. No kisses or hugs. Few things are eaten with hands like bread. Do not enter the house with shoes on. Take a bath. Infrastructure such as the medical system is also an important factor, but culture and customs may have held back the Coronavirus.

On the other hand, there are also scary data. According to a survey conducted by Osaka University and others, 1% of Americans, 1.5% of British people, 4.8% of Chinese people and 11.5% of Japanese people think that they are self-inflicted with the Coronavirus. They think it is their fault that they are sick. Peer-to-peer mutual monitoring puts pressure on conformity and suppresses it. It shouldn’t matter, but people read the atmosphere with the invisible gaze of other people.

Japan's response to the Coronavirus may leave a legacy of success. It may become a new material for Cool Japan. Or it may be recognized as an example of suppressing the atmosphere of society, which is heavier than China's high-pressure power.

Now the problem is digital. The fact that we have managed to hold on to the system without hitting the bottom of the world is probably the result of training in sharing information on SNS and the Internet. Both 9/11 and 3/11 were local events. This is the first global crisis since the spread of smartphones and social media.

There are many fakes and hoaxes in the information space, but it is surpassed by the number of anti-Coronavirus strategies. Digital wants to be useful for anti-virus. Digital techniques are also effective in reading the atmosphere and applying pressure. On the other hand, in Japan, the digital defeat is called out, and the Coronavirus countermeasures by the national and local governments are not progressing as expected. Digital holds the key to getting beyond Coronavirus.

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The “Outdoor Music Festival Consortium” was established.

■ The “Outdoor Music Festival Consortium” was established.

Fuji Rock, Summer Sonic, Rock in Japan, Rising Sun, and seven other festival organizers have gathered, and we, the CiP Association, are also the founders.

We aim to hold and expand festivals that have been canceled due to Coronavirus.

About 300 outdoor music festivals called "summer festivals" are held annually nationwide, but last year they were canceled all over the country due to Coronavirus.

This consortium will share examples of cooperation with local communities, formulate and disseminate safe and secure guidelines, make requests to the government and local governments, and work to further develop music festivals.

The public benefits of music festivals include:

・Implementation in local areas with the cooperation of each local area, resulting in movement of people and attachment to the land

・Not only music, but also various cultures such as food, tourism, nature, fashion, etc.

・Transportation and lodging costs and pre-consumption in each region exceed sales of music festivals

According to Shobi Gakuen University Associate Professor Mitsumasa Egashira, the economic ripple effect of music festivals in Japan is 370 billion yen. The event is held in collaboration with the organizer and the local government where the event is held, and has generated significant economic effects in each region, such as transportation and lodging expenses and advance consumption exceeding sales as an event.

However, the history of music festivals in Japan is short, and there are many problems.

This consortium aims to develop the festival through deep cooperation and involvement with each region, contributing to the local economy, and forming a sustainable music festival culture. In one event, we will work together to solve goals and problems that are difficult to achieve.

An outdoor music festival is an event created together with the fans who gather there, and it is also an opportunity for children to experience nature.

Through the development of the festival, we will realize “coexistence” with the region, fans, and children who will become fans in the future, create regional revitalization, and create a sustainable outdoor music festival culture.

An outdoor music festival is an event created not only by the organizer, but also by artists, local governments, related industries, and fans. In the era of With Coronavirus/After Coronavirus, we would like to develop an ecosystem where various entities gather.

The CiP Council will also strive to contribute to developmental regional revitalization.

The founders are the following seven festival organizers and the CiP Council.

SPACE SHOWER SWEET LOVE SHOWER

RISING SUN ROCK FESTIVAL

ARABAKI ROCK FEST

FUJI ROCK FESTIVAL

ROCK IN JAPAN FESTIVAL

SUMMER SONIC

RUSH BALL

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