Future of Digitalization(1/2)Emergence of Polymorphic information networking

This article is written by Mr. Motoyuki Matsunaga, Senior Fellow, Institute for International Socio-Economic Studies（NEC Group）

Digital Space
Digital Transformation（DX） was a concept advocated or proposed by Swedish professor Erik Stolterman in 2004 that all aspects of human life and society will be in the favorable changes associated with digital technology application and integration in the future.

Lately the definition becomes more realistic and DX now signifies evolution of business process interactive among people, goods and companies in the digital space.

During recent 15 years the enhancement of information and communication technology has been remarkable and new services have been emerging one after another thanks to technological innovation such as IoT (Internet of Things) and AI (Artificial Intelligence) on top of sophistication of functions of smartphone. The world is so closely connected with submarine communication cables and dedicated communication lines, and, financial network is so established to be in operation during 24 hours realizing the consolidated world market and enabling global economic activities passing through space and time.

Internet Revolution
Second stage of digitalization is Internet Revolution. Under the concept of Digital Convergence a variety of different information such as TV images, telephone voices, documents are all consolidated and processed in internet.

Computer is now capable of responding to human voice and self-developing itself with AI and IoT technologies connecting a vast number of information terminal and devices, and, computer is now of sophisticated talent very close to human being.

Enhancement of human-machine interface make it possible that global media is emerged connecting individuals globally and platformers are globally enjoying their prosperity.

Autonomously Recognizing
Now computer become so sophisticated to process information autonomously recognizing surrounding environment and situation without being ordered by human in such speed as super rapid trading of stocks.

As DX is now with us, we can expect in the future new structure not only in the financial sector as above mentioned but also in economic basis and social basis where information with a variety of value and role is interpreted and acknowledged in polymorphic manner.

Human organs with complicated and sophisticated functions are highly associated and coordinating with each other as human networking. As in the similar manner with this human networking, several autonomous networks are cooperating with each other in the information space.

Individual network is recognizing autonomously the surrounding atmosphere and is evolving itself while learning for the best.

Digital Transformation is, therefore, uniquely characterized that polymorphic information network is established in the society connecting interactive and flexibly the best networks appropriate for the specific time and occasion.

In the current market economy new basis of value exchange is now just being established and starts to get popular where a variety of services such as cash-less payment, dynamic pricing and subscription, are functioning autonomously but are associating interactively with each other, putting always value for consumers in the center.

Evolution of polymorphic networking and value formation would be the next to come after the current information society dominated by platformers.