"Challenge the world" is my expectation of our company

Text / Son Masayoshi

"Challenge the world" is my expectation of our company.

Although challenging, but will be able to open the door to the future. Without any challenge will be able to face the future situation, or the posterity of our predecessors shade, or purely luck, I am afraid not for a long time. However, taking the initiative to challenge everybody on the ground is to develop their own future, and I think we can achieve good results.

The era of rapid economic growth in Japan is where the Japanese home appliance and automobile industry entrepreneurs embarked on a large-scale march into the world. In the recent 20 years, Japan's economic growth has been stagnating for a long time and is facing the problem of population decline and declining birthrate. It is necessary to enter the world.

The situation now is that digitizing for many people is not a pro-active activity, but rather a desperation. In particular, Japan's home appliance industry has been struggling with the deficit for a long time. I think the reason is that the digital action is too slow. Just assembling parts is just electronic. Made in Japan is very thin hardware, low failure rate, which is Japan's heirloom technology, which is also facing the problem of digital inadequate.

To make the software and hardware integration, we must make full use of cloud technology and big data, it must be actively digital.

300 years after the evolution of technology

I proposed Softbank's "30-year vision" almost three years ago.

When I first proposed the "30-year Vision," when I first started my business, I first held a meeting of the company. There were only two employees in my company except for myself. In the morning meeting, I almost said half an hour's vision for the future Both employees listened with their eyes open, feeling they were in a strange company and two people resigned after two weeks passed. Speaking for a long speech Speaking of the company's vision leaves a psychological shadow for employees, so I sealed my vision in my heart.

After 30 years of entrepreneurship, I once again put this issue in front of employees and I will describe my 30-year vision so far. At first, I was confused about the question "what will happen 30 years from now?" But the more confused it is, the more I look into the distance and the more I can see the future in the torrent. Considering the longer term, we will thoroughly consider the state of human life, social and technological evolution after 300 years. It took about a year, gathering wisdom both at home and abroad to consider this issue. Let's talk about some of these today.

Microcontroller is made of transistors, transistors close to and separated from the formation of current, brain cells are also close to separate nerve cells, memory and thinking, that is, binary, with a weak current memory and thinking. Transistors are also binary, brain cells and computer chips are exactly the same theory. It follows that, about 20 billion years ago, human brain cells were 3 billion, with 30 billion combinations in binary. 30 billion, when the number of transistors in the microcontroller can exceed this number, if we figure it out, the answer is 2018.

According to Moore's Law, the function will certainly evolve continuously. And human cells have not changed since 4000 years ago. From now on 2000, the number of brain cells will not change, and the number of transistors in the microcontroller will exceed the human brain in 2018. We will think about what will happen 30 years later. After 30 years after 2018, 300 years later. 300 years later, it is 10 times 60 times the power of far more than the number of brain cells, so far the human being is the largest body of life on the brain using the brain cells, and have the power beyond the human function, the microcontroller.

We think trouble, imagination and creation are the prerogatives of mankind. Computers will also have self-learning capabilities in the future. The era of computer programming will come. The future of the world will be like science fiction. Brain-building computers will certainly be born more than humans A keen insight and invention, equipped with such a computer robot will surpass humans without co-existence there is no future, I believe that humans and excellent robots can live happily together.

Human beings are currently considered impossible to give up the area, such as disaster relief, care, health care, education, etc., can be equipped with a computer built by the brain robot to help.

In Softbank's communications business, an excellent computer wirelessly connects to the Internet and carries out intra-brain communication through chips and humans. Just communicating in the brain and communicating with each other is just as telepathic.

In addition, medical treatment will also be greatly improved, with an average age of 200 years of age will finally come. 300 years ago, the average life expectancy of human beings was 35 years old, and most people died early due to war and disease. 300 years after the average human life expectancy is 200 years old, 70 to 80 years old will be said to be young, the future more imagined closer to science fiction, full of arguments on philosophy, religion and so on.

Cloud will become the largest human assets

After thinking about the world 300 years later, once again thinking about the topic "30 years from now", you will find it basically boring and taken for granted. People will think that "such a degree is taken for granted." When we discuss robots equipped with brain computers 300 years from now, people have a wide range of opinions. Compared to 30 years later, things seem too common and can not be cited. But the key issue is this for granted 30 years later.

The first is the "Big Bang," for example, imagine how an iPhone would be 30 years from now, about a million times more powerful than the current CPU. Although I do not know at that time, iPhone still does not exist, but after 30 years the average capacity of intelligent machines will be 100 million times the current speed of communication is 300 million times. One million times what is the concept, it is loaded into the human brain 100,000 times the transistor.

After 2018, the computer will surpass the human brain and will be far more than 30 years later. In this case, it will be able to put 500 billion songs and 350 million years of newspapers. Such "super smart machine" will appear in the future.

How is the cloud? This is completely different, and the communication speed reaches 300 million times now, the connection speed between the local and the cloud is almost negligible. The infinite cloud will greatly widen the earth and change people's life style. Everything will be a living record, saved in the cloud. In future cloud technologies, it becomes a matter of course that automatic translation is completed at the moment of communication. Education, of course, has greatly evolved, with children all over the world speaking to children all over the world, language can be automatically translated. Medical care will also reach a high level, and you will instantly receive the world's most advanced medical services, whether you live in an isolated island or live in the desert. Working methods will evolve, connecting many things in an instant, and greatly improving the efficiency of production ... Cloud will become the biggest asset of mankind.

Softbank also began to use cloud technology as its biggest asset, and cloud and big data combined to form a more profitable form of service to the market and solve problems. Softbank first start from their own, using big data to solve their own problems. First of all, to improve the signal, in order to better serve Softbank users, we make the signal better and build a more efficient base station.

We get and analyze data from the smartphone app, where and when the user is accessing the network several times, and not connecting to it. We conducted a variety of analyzes and analyzed the connection status of our competitors' users - all using data for analysis. I think that way we can make real improvements so that we can analyze where there are problems and where the obstacles lie.

Before selling to others try it yourself, can really come in handy, this is the Softbank culture. The popular concepts such as cloud data such as big first fully use their own, so that our service improvements really have a scientific background of data analysis, with limited investment in equipment to compete with others.

Another example of big data usage is where we started before, whether users can actually see the signal improve, and we're looking at Twitter's big data.

Softbank also works with the cloud technology, the first to be changed. iPhone has been launched for four or five years, and we have all staff assigned to one, when the iPad comes out for everyone, and all can carry, connect the cloud. For the future of the cloud, do not use the iPhone is not enough, we can do a variety of work no matter when and where, the mail is also through the cloud of Gmail, a variety of reports Cloud.

It's not just us, but companies that work with us are also using it. With 7,000 iPad mini on JR, you can read your favorite content whenever and wherever you go. Medical companies use video to provide doctors' information, misawa home (real estate company) uses iPad for project management, and Sanwa shutter also introduces work 1,400 iPad, the use of video and other means to allow people to actually experience the speed of the gate switch.

Softbank has been implemented within the paperless, do not have a printer, in addition to the contractual documents and documents provided to the government, has been fully paperless, the meeting is also a video introduction, the company has specialized video production team, the way the show is changed. Use Google Apps to talk around the world ...

To challenge the world, we see the new scenery, is not to challenge the scenery can not be seen. Let us continue our journey in the future, are actively carrying out digital businesses, let us continue to challenge the information revolution, the world's working methods will also be a big change.

Why do you want to move? Just because this is what people have to offer happiness and have to do.

(The author of this article is the founder of Softbank, the title is added by the editor, without my review. Thanks for the translation of the game teahouse)