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This paper explores the hyper-connected era and the need for more humanistic reflections and constant questions about the relationship between science and technology and humans. Terms such as "Fourth Industrial Revolution" and "hyper-connected era" describe today's science and technology. The Fourth Industrial Revolution refers to the creative communication of information and exchanges across human-to-human and human-to-thing connections, enabling "hyper-connection," which never existed before. "Hyper-connectivity" enables global communication to take place, and it is thought that future societies will change in quantity and quality. Hyper-connection seems to enable widespread connectivity and communication, but equipment changes, information, and knowledge monopolies can paradoxically lead to blocking, exclusion, disagreement, and inequality. Science has been devised and developed to enhance human life in a better world, but in some cases its objective can deviate from the original purpose. Hyper-connections can connect humans with each other, and humans and machines faster and farther, but the conflict between these interactions may deepen. This may result in a lack of reflection when current research focuses on science and technology and considers human life. The gap between human existence and the rapidly evolving future society is expanding. In this article, I focus on two issues. First, as a reflection on "connectivity," second, there is the problem of "disconnection," which started from connection. In the present and in the near future, it is necessary to discuss what kind of existence humans need to live and whether the relationship between machines and humans should be set. How can we find the meaning of human existence from the hyper-connected society, the time of change, and the meaning of human life? In the hyper-connected era, more humanistic reflections and constant questions about the relationship between science and technology and humans are needed.
