Is "Society 5.0" Supplementing AI as Technology's Latest and Greatest Snake Oil?

"Society 5.0" envisions a smart city as you would expect it. Drone deliveries, everything is IoT and automation wherever possible. The idea is that Society 1.0 were the hunter-gatherers followed by agriculture (2), industrialization (3), information (4), and now the "super-smart-society" It's not about reinventing the wheel, but change doesn't happen in tiny increments. Technology is the new word for magic, especially artificial intelligence.