Prime Minister Abe wanted to have a new goverment section called Innovation. His idea was to make innovating plans toward the year of 2025. That is, we should forecast or create the plans for the changes in society and technologies. Professor Kurokawa, the former president of SCJ, is the head of this committee in the goverment, and naturally the SCJ made the committee of Innovation for cooperation, and I happened to become a member of this SCJ subcommittee.
It will be an interesting committee that is unusual in the SCJ. Dr Kanazawa, the committed head, decided to ask all of the SCJ members and affiliated members to make their own innovation plan as their homework and submit them to this committe.
I must say I am not good at all about the future. I do not think I ever succeeded to predict things which would happen twenty years later. Even in my own research area, I do not think I ever correctly predicted what would be invented or discovered twenty years later. Therefore I am not optimistic about my capability in this sort of venture, but I am interested in what people will tell us about the future of Japan in 20 years from now.
Because I feel I am obliged to say something about this subject as a member of the committee, I wrote down four plans. This is surprising to myself about the outcome that I can think about even four plans, but to be honest none of them is genuinely creative to my objective view. I would predict all of them will be dimissed. But I realized that it was a homework with a fun.