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Meta-Nature : A Probable Shift of the Paradigm

Meta-Nature : A Probable Shift of the Paradigm

The slides I used for the session "Data as the new currency, and technology as the new driver" at 2024 EFMD GN Asia Annual Conference on October 25, 2024.

Kenji Saito

October 25, 2024
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  1. “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte”

    and “Bathers at Asni` eres” melting into one future, generated by Stable Diffusion XL Beta Data as the new currency, and technology as the new driver — 2024 EFMD GN Asia Annual Conference Meta-Nature : A Probable Shift of the Paradigm Kenji Saito, Ph.D. Professor, Waseda Business School (Graduate School of Business and Finance, Waseda University) Meta-Nature : A Probable Shift of the Paradigm — 2024-10-25 – p.1/5
  2. Brief Self Introduction Kenji Saito, Ph.D. Professor, Graduate School of

    Business and Finance, Waseda University (Waseda Business School) – Chair, Digital Transformation Committee Collaborative Researcher, Keio University Global Research Institute Chief Science Officer, BlockchainHub Inc. Representative Director, Academy Camp (some more non-profits) Bio M.Eng in Computer Science from Cornell University, 1993 Ph.D. in Media and Governance from Keio University, 2006 (on digital currency research) Researcher of P2P (Peer-to-Peer), digital currency, and distributed autonomous society for 24 years at Keio and Waseda universities (started my career at Waseda in 2019) Holding Academy Camp for children in Fukushima with friends since summer 2011 . . . , 2018 Summer “OK Google, Do My Homework!”, 2019 Winter “Automation for Girls”, . . . , VR2021.9 “You Explore! Amazing Modern & Near Future Medicine”, . . . , VR&RPG 2023.5 “Don’t Be So Serious”, . . . , 2024 Winter “Shouting AI in the Northwest of the Capital” 2024 Spring “ALOHA FROM HAWAII”, . . . , 2024 Fall “Shouting AI Again in the Northwest of the Capital” → Inter-connected in my mind (society hereafter needs to be designed with children) Meta-Nature : A Probable Shift of the Paradigm — 2024-10-25 – p.2/5
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  4. From “Lighter (person) ” to “Alexa, turn on the lights”

    19th - 20th century Social System Social Environment Division of Labor No More Division of Labor Network of Machines and Algorithms Machines Technology Human Automation System 21st century and onward OK OK (when to) Turn on the lights Autonomous and Networked Technology Humanity more like Nature (Meta-Nature) Turn on the lights ⇒ For humans, the technological social environment is semantically transforming into something similar to the natural environment (because nature is automatic for humans) = “extended natural environment” Patterns of living by ‘tending’ the Meta-Nature so that the desired fruit can be obtained (like prompt engineering?) Meta-Nature : A Probable Shift of the Paradigm — 2024-10-25 – p.4/5
  5. Tetrad of “Business and Finance” Exchange and consumption Savings and

    investment Specialization, agricultural/industrial society Inequality, exploitation Bullshit jobs, environmental problems Digital technology → Meta-Nature ENH REV RET OBS Control and obedience, hierarchy Maximization of profits Moneyless credit system Gift economy Generalization (of skills), hunter-gatherer society New medium “retrieves” what was previously made “obsolete” Will “gift economy”, “generalization (of skills)” and “hunter-gatherer society” really be retrieved? Meta-Nature : A Probable Shift of the Paradigm — 2024-10-25 – p.5/5