6G and Onward to Next G

CHAPTER 8Society 5.0: Internet As If People Mattered

“If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.”

LUDWID WITTGENSTEIN(1889–1951)

While the primary focus of 5G has been on industry verticals, future 6G mobile networks are anticipated to become more human‐centered. Toward this end, it is important to take a number of different factors into account in order to develop a more realistic understanding of human nature that challenges that of rational individuals driven by self‐interest, as traditionally assumed in mainstream economics. Emerging cyber‐physical‐social system (CPSS) aim at functionally integrating human beings into today's cyber–physical systems (CPS) at the social, cognitive, and physical levels. CPSS are instrumental in realizing the human‐centered Society 5.0 vision. Society 5.0 envisions human beings to increasingly interact with social robots and embodied artificial intelligence (AI) in their daily lives. In this chapter, we expand on our work on robonomics and tokenomics discussed in Chapter 7. After introducing our CPSS‐based bottom‐up multilayer token engineering framework for Society 5.0, we experimentally demonstrate how the collective human intelligence of a blockchain enabled decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) can be enhanced via purpose‐driven tokens [1].

8.1 Human Nature: Bounded Rationality and Predictable Irrationality

Recall from Chapter 6 that behavioral economics assumes that the behavior of individuals ...