This blog post explores how the RFID technology hidden in transportation cards works and how diversely it is utilized in our daily lives. We primarily use public transportation when moving around the city. Each time, we pay using a transit card, and the technology enabling the transit card reader to deduct money from our card is RFID (radio frequency identification). Thanks to this...
This blog post explores how a super grid connecting national power grids could play a role in expanding renewable energy and ensuring stable power supply. Oil reserves are finite, and their profitability is steadily declining over time. Nuclear power, once touted as a next-generation energy source, is losing trust in its safety and economic viability due to successive accidents and waste...
In this blog post, we examine whether it is justified to break the social contract and establish a new one when state power infringes upon the freedom of its citizens, based on social contract theory. The World as a Whole Understood Through Social Contract Theory Social contract theory posits that all humans possess natural rights. Since the guarantee of these freedoms and rights is...
This blog post examines how audience reactions influence the completeness of a play and how the interaction between actors and audience members brings changes to the performance. The components of a play are commonly referred to as the script, actors, stage, and audience. As this indicates, theater is an art form created through the collaboration of playwrights, actors, directors, and...
This blog post examines the future brought by openness and closedness, comparing Google and Apple’s strategies to Rome’s roads and China’s Great Wall. The Roman Roads and the Great Wall of China Just as the saying goes, “Two suns cannot rise in the sky,” humanity has always competed to claim the top position in every field. Across continents and regions, people gathered...
This blog post examines how the development of transportation has impacted not only human lifestyles but also culture, economy, and environment. The English word ‘transport’, meaning ‘transportation’, is a compound of ‘trans’ (across, beyond) and ‘porte’ (to carry), carrying the meaning of “carrying across.” In German, it is ‘Verkehr’, which means “to perform an action done in one place in...
This blog post examines how scientific knowledge is generated through the processes of verification and falsification, and how empirical evidence defines science. How is scientific knowledge generated? Explanations for this can vary depending on the philosophical perspective on science. One such perspective is logical positivism, which judges the meaning of scientific statements based on...
This article explains that the state mandates social insurance systems to prepare for situations where individuals cannot adequately prepare for risks themselves, and that these systems play a role in ensuring economic equity and enhancing social stability. All people inevitably live with the possibility of facing risks. Therefore, individuals seek to prepare for risks themselves, and the...
Transactional analysis analyzes communication patterns in human relationships based on ego states. Through this, individuals can recognize their own behaviors and attitudes, improve interactions with others, and achieve smoother communication. Transactional analysis analyzes communication patterns in human relationships based on the concept of ego states. In other words, Transactional...
This blog post examines how Jan Amos Komenský pursued equality through education amidst war and persecution, and the impact his educational philosophy has had on the present day. Jan Amos Komenský was a 17th-century European educator, philosopher, and theologian whose educational ideas were deeply intertwined with the turbulent times of his era. Czech lands had already experienced...