New Edition of Creating a Super Free Society 4: Super Tech Strategy

■ New Edition of Creating a Super Free Society 4: Super Tech Strategy

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

From Chapter 2, "Super Tech Strategy."

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○ It can protect or injure

2020 is the first year of AC (after Coronavirus). BC (Before Coronavirus) and history before that are divided. The second year of AC was the beginning of a withdrawn, quiet, and tumultuous world.

Twenty years ago, the U.S. presidential election, in which Bush vs. Gore went all the way to the Supreme Court, showed that America was extremely divided, something continued between Trump and Biden. A mob, fueled by the incumbent president, took over the Capitol building, and some were killed in shootings. The world witnessed the live online broadcast.

I was surprised at the world's gaze, not surprised at America's deterioration, saying, "Oh, that's the kind of country there is." Both Facebook and Twitter have suspended the president's account. A company criticizes the head of state. I was surprised at the disinterested public gaze.

Compared to this, even if the state of emergency was declared for the second time, Japan remained quiet. No tear gas was shot and no bloodshed was seen. However, conflicts over the containment of infections and the maintenance of the economy are also quietly progressing. The division between BC and AC will become apparent in the future. Japan has escaped the hardships of the previous defeat, despite major incidents such as security disturbances, oil crises, religious cult terrorism, and earthquakes.

There is a case of separating AC and BC. The first year of AC is the first year of 5G. Until 4G, it was a generational evolution of high speed and large capacity. 5G is a service for IoT with ultra-low latency and simultaneous multiple connections, as well as ultra-high speed. There will be a shift from person-to-person communication to object-to-object communication. It is not evolution on a continuous line. It is a turning point where the communication signal is switched.

In parallel with the spread of 5G, the government is asking the industry to reduce mobile phone charges by 40%. Thirty-five years after the liberalization of telecommunications in 1985, deregulation has continued, and fees have become unregulated, but isn't it too expensive now? They say. It's hard for Rakuten, which just entered the market.

NTT made DOCOMO a wholly owned subsidiary. Also in 1985, NTT, which had changed from a public corporation to a joint-stock company, was split up in 1999 because it was considered too strong, and a collar was put on it to prevent it from rampaging. However, before I knew it, GAFA was in control of the business and data. The government has raised the white flag of digital defeat. 5G is also ahead in other countries, and Japanese companies are not doing well overseas. The government did not object to decentralized NTT's reversal of consolidation, and the reorganization was smoothly arranged. For me, who was involved in both the liberalization of communications and the breakup of NTT, it seems to me that the times have been divided.

During the liberalization of telecommunications in the 1980s, I was writing Diet statements as a bureaucrat. At that time, the government was aiming for an advanced information society. Minister, what is an advanced information society? Answer: "We are living in a society where people from all over the world can share images in real time." Minister, what will happen if that happens? Answer: "When people around the world understand each other, world peace will come."

September 11th, the year the century began. I got caught up in September 11 in New York and died. I was driving in a good mood listening to Puffy, so I don't know what's going on. I saw it on CNN at a coffee shop where I stopped by and learned that it was a vulgar terrorism.

When I called Tokyo in a hurry, everyone was confused after seeing the scene where the plane crashed in real time on the evening news. Americans commute to work or school on the East Coast, and sleep on the West Coast due to the time difference, so many did not see it in real time. It was an incident that shocked Japanese people more.

An advanced information society where people all over the world can share images in real time has arrived. But world peace was a lie. If you share the video, hatred will grow, isn't it terrorism? After that, the Iraq War broke out despite the anti-war movement in the Internet world. On the battlefield, pinpoint bombing with GPS and soldiers with wearable equipment killed people with digital technology.

The technology is already in your hands. It promotes both anti-war and war. The net is on the side of politicians and on the side of terrorists. It's like a knife, it can both protect and injure. It is up to the user to decide. The century of digital users has begun.

At the end of 2001 Osama bin Laden was second in an online poll for TIME magazine's Person of the Year. Masashi Tashiro won first place. In 9/11, it was the people of 2-channel who pushed the Japanese to the top of the world in terms of voyeurism. Far Eastern users have brought in the established Western mass media. Individuals are empowered. The mass media have become relative. The hierarchy has collapsed.

　

Ten years later, in 2011, bin Laden was killed. He went into hiding in Pakistan, didn't use the internet or phone, but his hideout was identified. Even though it was a large mansion in the city, it was exposed because there was no communication line. The secret is leaking. Offline is not safe either. “Secret” (Slap Happy)

In the same year, Colonel Gaddafi of Libya was also killed. It is questionable why the Colonel is the head of state, but it is said that a drone bombed him. There are no safe zones. In the same year, Egypt's Mubarak government was overthrown by a chain of people on Facebook and Twitter. It also launched suicide missiles. It was also an IT war that read each other's radar.

The Nagorno-Karabakh War began near the Caspian Sea in September 2020. Azerbaijan has destroyed 160 Armenian tanks with Turkish drones.

On the same social media, Islamist extremists gather young warriors from around the world. China has set up a firewall like the Great Wall of China and is desperate to control the people. It will also impose restrictions on the activities of foreign companies. They take intra-regional block tactics proudly. The octopus pot effect is strengthening.

In an agricultural society, land is the resource. Oil is the resource for industrial societies. In the information society, data is the resource. In search of land and oil, nations went to war again and again. But the company owns the data. Its champion, GAFA (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon.com), has gained power that surpasses that of ordinary nations. The position of the state and the company became even. A silent revolution that changed power without war.