Creating new fields of industry
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Through the application of photonics we are now beginning to develop the New Industry that will lead to the cycle illustrated in the figure at the left. In this cycle, mankind is constantly improving its status by using new technologies to discover new knowledge. The application of this new knowledge leads first to new industries. New industries, in turn, give rise to a new style of life and a new standard of values, which lead to New Science. This ongoing circle is what we call the "H-SPIRAL". All of these "new" aspects
come within the range of our consciousness for the first time, bringing with them an emphasis on paving the way into the unknown. |
I believe that this is done, not by breaking the actuality into parts and trying to find answers by setting up 1-to-1 correspondences, which is the conventional concept of technology, but rather by embracing all of the elements involved as a "whole", based on a harmonic way of thinking, originating from the east, to gain an understanding of the overall entity. To me, this would represent a breakthrough in modern-day science, caught as it is in its own limitations. Starting from a new sense of values that embraces dynamic one-to-field, or field-to-field relationships,
we have the freedom to move forward into new fields of scientific technology.
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Teruo Hiruma
President, Hamamatsu Photonics |
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