The pace of technology is even faster than he expected.
Masayoshi Son Fortune
For one, he has a 300-year view of SoftBank’s growth strategy. He says that artificial intelligence combined with data gathered by billions of sensors will bring on an “information revolution,” that will benefit people more than the 19th century Industrial Revolution.
Business Insider
In June 2010, the richest man in Japan revealed his latest vision for the next 30 years and the next 300 years.
Masayoshi Son, the chairman and CEO of tech behemoth SoftBank, shared his sci-fi predictions in a presentation at what was then SoftBank's 30th annual general meeting. We first saw the slide deck via Fortune.
Fast-forward seven years and Son has a tech fund close to $100 billion (£76 billion) at his disposal — thanks to companies like Appleand the Sovereign Wealth Fund of Saudi Arabia.
He's investing the money at a rapid pace into ideas that he hopes will turn his predictions — telepathy, superintelligent machines, computer-brain interfaces, and cloned sheep — into a reality.
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