Principle for Engineering Service Based System by Swirl Computing - Advanced Design Approaches to Emerging Software Systems - page 50

INTRODUCTION During the eras of “Hunting and Collecting”

and “Farming”, an individual had little power
to do anything. And during the era of “Motor-
izing”, an individual was able to have relatively
big power for “Hunting and Collecting”, “Farm-
ing”, Production, and Transportation by using
an artificial power. Now, as we are at the age of
“Informing”, an individual is not individual any
more if one uses Information Technologies for
relations and connections with others. Because the
principal matter of “Informing” is intangible and
the entity itself of an intangible matter is invisible.
So it might be easier to handle it if we will have
a transparent facility by an ideal environment of
IT around us. So in this framework, we may be
able to be individually independent on our own
thoughts and activities in societies. Under this
situation, the way of life may depend on individual
“thoughts and activities”. What is more, we are
likely to think that we can do anything what we
want to without interruption by or about others.
On this stage, the most important thing to get is
“free and freely accessible atmosphere into any
environment surrounded us”.
But this environment is not always easy to
get even though we have some methods and the
facilities to access into surroundings in the world.
Because the present technologies and the theories
cannot assist us in an ideal manner (technologi-
cally less maturity). And also necessary facilities
of infrastructure are quite expensive and need time
for constructions. So it will not allow us easily to
accomplish these environments at the time when
we want to. In another words, if it is possible, it
will offer an ultimate service for us.
Here, it will mention about definitions of
“Service” and “Service Science” in engineering.

Pre-historically speaking, all that we were doing
was to eat fruits, nuts, insects, animals, buds, and
leaves that were naturally raised on the earth.
That is to say, these eras were nothing to do
with a creative knowledge for mankind (vague
in creativity). Historically speaking, we started
the civilization by the engineering (tooling) for
Hunting and Cultivation within a movable area,
and then by the engineering of Farming in a liv-
ing area (vicinity of mankind), and then by the
engineering of Motorization, and then now by the
engineering of the Information Technology with a
networking and communication at a place around
us (not necessarily to move). And then, we will
be facing to an engineering of “Knowledge of
Science with extended entities”, which is mostly
concerned with knowledge (brain itself).
So by considering the history of the engineer-
ing, we may say that the way of engineering
development in the history of the civilization is
coming from “vague” to “environment around a
movable area”, and then to “vicinity of mankind”,
and then onto “mankind itself”, and then into “the
center of mankind; knowledge (brain)”.
If we look at this phenomenon from another
aspect -physically speaking-, the direction of the
civilization is from the outside world into the
center of mankind. On the other hand -relatively
speaking, a mental matter involved in mankind is
expanding from “Ourselves” to “Every Dimension
in space of the world (Expansion of Ourselves)”.
In chronological order, we may have the fol-
lowing schematic expression about the trend of
the civilization contents in terms of engineering.

• Hunting and Collecting ( Collection with

Simple Tools; Awakening of Culture ) • “Service” is to benefit another or others

tangibly or intangibly by an activity or an
action.”

• Farming ( Creation with Technology )

• Motorizing ( Creation of Artificial Power )

• Informing ( Creation by Science ) • “Service Science” is a method or a thought

for Service that is created or invented new-
ly by means of Science.

• Knowing ( Pure Creation of Knowledge

by Science )