Ubiquitous society
Description:
A ubiquitous society is also called a "computers everywhere society" and is a society where anyone can use computers anytime, anywhere. Tiny computers would be embedded everywhere in our living space -- not only in home appliances, but also in the walls and electric lights in houses, items in shops such as clothes and pill bottles, and food wrappers papers -- and these computers would communicate and link with each other in order to realize more convenient and higher quality life for us.
Enablers:
The Increasing Use of Internet
People's need for communication and information
Market convergence : computer+communication+consumer goods.
Inhibitors:
Growing privacy and security concerns
how to manage security,privacy, and trust?
Control and Monitoring by authorities.
Paradigms:
The ubiquitous society will be actualized through the broadband mobile technology, resulting the business manner / communication manner will be changed. (For example, the TV conference in the high speed train leads drastic speed up of the speed of business)