How will people live with aging?
Aging is a phenomenon in which various bodily functions degrade with the passage of time. Aging itself is not an illness, but as described in a previous article, aging can trigger various forms of disease.
THINK No.04 AGING_Vol.03
How can technology change humanity?
Recently, words like virtual reality, artificial reality, and artificial intelligence have come to be commonly used, even in the context of our daily lives. This is making significant changes in how we evaluate “humanity”.
THINK No.01 HUMANNESS_Vol.03
Should we rethink our understanding of the elderly with the onset of a super-aged society?
To give a caricatured depiction of the future faced by a super-aged society, we might think of it as a time of increasingly problematic labor shortages, an era in which the elderly put on exoskeletons so they might work to support themselves to make up for lost pensions, one in which they work with AI support to perform menial tasks.
THINK No.09 SUPER-AGED SOCIETY_Vol.02
In an age of tasteless food, could we still find things delicious?
n the field of food education, Chie Tokeiji is a food analyst who takes a variety of approaches that differ from prevalent thought based on existing nutrition science.
THINK No.07 DIET_Vol.02
Can space impact our daily routine for the better?
Is it possible to create living spaces that correct disruptions to our internal clocks, and reduce the risk of “social jetlag”? To explore ways of better matching living spaces with our internal clocks, we interviewed Masashi Yanagisawa, a specialist in sleep medicine and professor at and director of Tsukuba University’s International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine (WPI-IIIS).
THINK No.06 LIVING SPACE_Vol.02
Elderly populations are increasing not only in the superaged society of Japan, but across the world, and this has created newfound interest in extending healthy lives.
THINK No.04 AGING_Vol.02