Looks like Black Mirror had access to this presentation.<p>When will people realize that it is not just the number of neurons but the structure of brain that makes it what it is.<p>I have often wondered what gives these people (the visionaries with the means, think Musk) the arrogance to impose their vision on humanity. It is one thing to work on something you believe and try to bring it in reality, it is quite another to believe one can lead the world to follow <i>some particular path</i>. They may be working with an incredible tunnel vision or may be I am unable to comprehend the scale at which they operate.
I think an interesting point is that, for example in US corporate culture, it would be unacceptable to have a <i>non-facetious</i> theme of empathy running throughout such a strategic document. Whereas, it seems to me that the Japanese management culture truly allows for this sort of thing, compared to US board rooms. The world needs more of this, so well done Japan!<p>The money slide for me was the top companies by market capitalization over time, where you see railroads (old transport and information infrastructure) ousted by fuel and steel (car infrastructure), ousted by infotech infrastructure.
Much like all CEOs went through a phase of doing a marginal gains presentation, and some are still probably talking about how the internet is an opportunity, I suspect we'll see this kind of presentation trickle down to most orgs that like to think they are innovative.<p>It's a continuation of some of those mad stream of consciousness presentations we saw from "digital visionaries" a few years back.
10^60 computing elements (presumably doing some computing that we humans want done) with only ~10^80 atoms in the universe? I'm as optimistic a technologist as they come but that seems a bit... extreme
It’s a surprising presentation. I might not agree with several assumptions and implications but I was sincerely put off balance by this mission statement “Endeavoring to benefit society and
the economy and maximize enterprise value”... quite a difference from the “fiducial duty” to scorch the earth for a penny more.
I suppose this 2010 document could have been an early step in Softbank's bid to secure the $90B invested funds from Saudi Arabia and others, which was announced earlier in 2017.<p>2040 was perhaps the timescale around when Saudi was expecting to need substantial new revenues uncorrelated with burning hydrocarbons.