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 1.Preface   Learning from young Challenging Spirits
 
 	Chair of the Todai International Science Network steering committee 
	             (University of Tokyo, Dept. of Physics,
				Faculty of Science    Tsuneyoshi Kamae)
 
Reading the history that, in the early year of the Meiji era, we
imported the science technology from Europe, we notice that the
history of the Internet for the last ten years is similar to it. Since
there were no precedents and no seniors who where familiar with new
technology, they had spread into universities, laboratories and
enterprises without ideas of administration and management. Also
similar is that, though these pioneers had known the technology would
glow remarkably in the future, they expanded the visions without
running to making money.
 
During the latter half of the Meiji era, science technology were
proved to be useful for the nation and advertised noisily.  "The
light-hearted spirits" of youth had taken the place of "the Committee"
of nation ,university and big enterprise. There might be many science
technologies which should be grappled uniformly on a national scale
but there are also other science technology as much as that. It seems
that the Japanese history after the latter half of the Meiji era made
some kind of study and development of technology difficult.
 
The great universities in America and Europe have an atmosphere which
encourages the "light-hearted spirits" of youth to try at
ease. Professors also accept the new ideas with youth and try to
promote the creation and development of new technologies. Playing the
leadership role of "the Committee", presidents and dean of
universities are delighted to be the source of science technology. The
nominal budget comes to surpass that of these universities. I think
that by having "the light-hearted spirits" and always willing to try
universities will become the base of science technology, an area which
has not been Japanese organization's favorite subject.
 
The old studies and science technology try to make themselves reborn
by connecting to the network. There are no big hard-ware, but
distributed in these technologies and the technologies are type of
which Japan has been not good at. Now, we should give our name to be
the center of these new technologies. All department and sources of
study have some kind of connection to Information Network and there
will formulate various projects. Why don't old and young people give
new ideas each other, which will be ahead of the network.


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