Prospects of Technology Development

Abstract

The 21st century has come with the great impact of information revolution to change our society towards the new creation of the information society with much emphasis on individual pleasure through convergence of time, distance, and place, with instantly networked communication and information processing. Its nature of uncertainty is due to the inexperienced new individual-based communication and network, which may be received with confusion and chaos on the traditional mind; however, it will be transformed into an excellent opportunity of challenge and dynamism for the upcoming generation. Factory automation and robots will perform to merge our traditional industrial society with the new information society. And factory automation and robots with networked intelligence will generate an unlimited opportunity as a bridge to bundle two cultural behaviors in manufacturing. New vision for the future will be provided with our insights on factory automation with information technology.