It’s been said that the 21st century is the age of life sciences and information. Information is the manifestation of being alive, so there is no question of the importance of life and information. Life sciences, however, use the machine as a metaphor for the organism, with genes as the parts. Digital information using computers will have an unlimited expansion. This era of life and information, however, is not connected to an apprehension of the essence of living and life. Indeed, we have become a society in which it is difficult for living creatures to live.

We received the valuable encouragement of two people who know that new knowledge focusing on life and information is likely to be established by remembering the point of departure for the Biohistory Journal.