Advanced Information Society Research Articles

Translating in cyberspace: the coming industry of teletranslation

This paper examines the implications on translation services of the exploding use of new telecommunications technologies, with particular emphasis on computer communications in cyberspace, represented by the Internet. The relationship between language translation and cyberspace in an advanced information society is explored to show that the new communications environment is both creating demand for translation and helping to meet that demand. The paper concludes that the symbiosis between translation services and the emerging communications environment could culminate in ‘a teletranslation service’ as an International Value‐Added Network Service (IVANS) with worldwide accessibility using networked translators best to meet growing demand.

Broadcasting technology in an advanced information society

Technological development has an extremely important role in the future of broadcasting. HDTV in Europe and Japan and Advanced Television in the United States provide examples of developing broadcast technology. To these can be added EDTV and quasi–constant luminance signal processing. In the area of sound broadcasting, stereophonic broadcasting and the digitization of sound signals aim to improve sound transmission quality. Satellite broadcasting and fibre optics represent two novel transmission technologies. The development of technology is also obfuscating the boundary between broadcasting and telecommunications.

AI: A strategic technology in Japan?

The industrial society in Japan is now entering into a new era of an advanced information society or a network society. AI as a knowledge information processing technology is becoming an integral part of the society. This emerging era is being supported by the information industry.

情報化対応の教育の本質を求めて：課題と視点 : 新しい教育評価観に基づく教育

情報化対応の教育の本質を求めて：課題と視点 : 新しい教育評価観に基づく教育

高度情報化社会 ＸＩ 高度情報化社会における企業行動

高度情報化社会 ＸＩ 高度情報化社会における企業行動

〈高度情報化社会を考える〉高度情報化社会へ向けて [2

〈高度情報化社会を考える〉高度情報化社会へ向けて [2

高度情報化社会 ＸＩＩ 高度情報化社会を展望する

本稿では, まず「高度情報化社会」という日本固有の発想は, どのような背景から生まれたのかについて考察する。そして, 情報通信技術の高度化をはじめ, 情報通信ニーズの高度化, 「情報の産業化」の進展などの要因を概観する。次に, 「高度情報化社会」論の国際比較を通じて, 日本のビジョンづくりの特質を分析する。最後に, 「高度情報化社会」の展望と課題について, 情報通信技術の革新と融合の高度化, 情報通信ニーズの高度化, 情報通信利用環境の高度化, 情報公害抑止水準の高度化の四つの視点から検討を加えている。その結果, 情報通信技術とニーズのマッチング, 情報公害の抑止などの課題の解決が「高度情報化社会」実現の鍵であることを指摘する。

「高度情報化社会を斬る」

「高度情報化社会を斬る」

High speed, broadband communications and OSI

NTT is vigorously pursuing a wide range of technical developments which will lead to the realization of the Information Network System (INS). The realization of the INS, a crucial element in the infrastructure of the coming “advanced information society,” is the company's objective. This contribution presents a construction scenario for a forthcoming high speed, broadband network for business as an important part of the INS. The main concern of this contribution is how to adopt OSI architecture to user-to-network interworking in order to enhance network services and how to expand OSI to realize a high speed data transfer protocol.

THE ADVANCED INFORMATION SOCIETY: A SUITABLE UTOPIA FOR AUSTRALIA?

This paper considers the nature of the information society and its perception as utopia or anti-utopia. Australia is already an information society, and in technological terms, is moving towards an advanced information society. However, recent evidence on the decreased rate of growth of the information sector in the United States, the growth in importance of such areas as biotechnology, and the rapidity with which distinctly different and important problems can appear, may cause the advanced information society to be relegated to just another rejected image of perceived future societies. Thus Australian policy-makers should be cautious about selecting it as a goal.

A Report from Mitaka--INS Model System Experiment Site

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) is now promoting the Information Network System (INS) project, which is expected to be an important part of the basic infrastructure of the coming advanced information society. The purpose of INS is to provide various telecommunication services in a more economical and convenient manner by totally digitalized networks. The INS Model System-a pilot plant-was put into service in September 1984 in Mitaka City, which is adjacent to the Tokyo metropolitan area. This experiment is regarded as a "big" initial step toward the introduction of nationwide INS services. This paper reviews the system as well as service aspect of the experiment, where emphasis is laid on the actual operation status.

Report on the INS experiment

Abstract NTT has been undertaking thorough studies aimed at the establishment of a new comprehensive telecommunications network for the 21st century, called the Information Network System (INS). The INS is expected to play an important role in the infrastructure of the advanced information society of the future. An INS Model System plan has been initiated as the first big step toward the realization of the INS. Its construction began in September 1982 in both the center and suburbs of Tokyo, and it become operational on September 28, 1984. Through the model, studies are being made on the technical feasibility of INS systems and equipment and on a variety of service requirements. This paper describes the INS Model System, including such aspects as system configuration, services provided, information providers, monitors and actual operation status.

An Analysis of International Telecommunication Demand Structure

Divestiture of AT&T, shifting the operation of both British Telecom (BT) and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) to private sector brought free competition principle in telecommunication market. The surroundings of telecommunication market are drastically changing. There are very difficult questions about why such a serious changing is occurring and what kind of impacts it brings. One of the causes of this change is the development of electronics, which began rapidly to grow after the invention of the transistor, and the advance of information processing and telecommunication technologies accompanying the development of electronics. The dispersion and agglomeration of the metropolitan areas are influenced by those innovations.We focus our attention on the structure of telecommunication demand to predict such an influence of the telecommunication on the society.One of the reasons to introduce the Japanese telecommunication market the free competition principle is to make the telecommunication supply more flexible. Through the flexible supply, various kinds of demand should be met. The main services supplied by NCCs (New Common Carriers), which is just beginning their businesses however, is not a really new service, but a traditional telephone service, so called old medics. Namely, this means that the telecommunication using telephone is succeedingly main media. We examine the demand for telecommunication services, especially the international telephone one originated in Japan by the econometric analysis, in order to investigate the structural change of telecommunication market through technical innovations.Since the telephone services are voice communication between humanities, the demand structure is said to be hardly changed in the advanced information society. However, we have a doubt on the idea mentioned above, because of the following reasons.1. Increasing data-communication, which does not use data-network, such as facsimile transmission and personal computer communication using acoustic coupler.2. Changing of the price system due to the free competioion.3. Change of the price and income elasticities accompanying the change of the role of information.4. Substituting and complementing the new services for telephone service.We intend to prove these hypotheses. Furthermore by the proved results, we intend to estimate the impact of the telecommunications and its technologies on the socio-economical system.

Computer-aided engineering in the construction industry

With the advent of the advanced information society, the construction industry of Japan is transforming itself into a knowledge and information-intensive industry, supplying and maintaining architectural products. In doing so, the industry creates a total information system that can be used to improve the quality and productivity of architects. The system supporting this information structure is CAE, computer-aided engineering.

INS (Information Network System) — Telecommunications for the advanced information society

An Information Network System (INS) as the basis of a new world information order. Maximum advantage is to be made of the marriage between telecommunications and computer technologies in implementing the information network. A bit rate tariff system is also proposed to make INS feasible on both a national and international scale. As the community of man transforms itself, on the shoulders of INS, into an advanced information society, the human and technical weaknesses inherent in such a society must be addressed. By harmonizing the natural and social sciences with the needs of humanity, the technological and information-oriented innovations accompanying INS are expected to greatly enrich the quality of life.

高度情報化社会における情報の価値－その社会的資産としての重要性と使命－

高度情報化社会における情報の価値－その社会的資産としての重要性と使命－

The Ideal and the Real of Advanced Information Society

The Ideal and the Real of Advanced Information Society