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SoftBank Next 30-Year Vision (2010) [pdf]

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Re: SoftBank Next 30-Year Vision (2010) [pdf]

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Post by achow »

ForHackernews wrote: post #35
caseyf7 wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Slide 63: Telepathic communication (even with your dog)

Isn't Elon Musk pedalling that too? Nueronlink or whatever his latest meme-company is? Even many technical people don't see through this flimflam as long as it's selling a fantasy they want to believe in.

Neuralink is reading thoughts using wires and stuff attached to ones head.

Thinking further, that can be actually extended to make it telepathic. That is, across a great distance and over the air with help of transmitter on one head and receiver on the other, thoughts can be transported magically.

Re: SoftBank Next 30-Year Vision (2010) [pdf]

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Post by unionpivo »

ignoramous wrote: post #33
cryptozeus wrote: post #9

500 bil operating income, won’t hire graphic designer to create a slideshow.

In their defence: https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/

I like it. Its clear, you can quickly find information you are looking for.

I like it more than typical generic corporate website that futures, superlatives, and doesn't even explain what they do.

Re: SoftBank Next 30-Year Vision (2010) [pdf]

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Post by unionpivo »

LudwigNagasena wrote: post #8
s_dev wrote: post #5

This deck doesn't seem real.

I would fire the intern who did this presentation.

Honestly Its so bad, I don't think any intern would dare to produce this as a final result.

On the other hand I have seen plenty of times when nobody had balls to tell higher up that what they produced is piece of crap

Re: SoftBank Next 30-Year Vision (2010) [pdf]

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Post by typon »

LudwigNagasena wrote: post #34
Traster wrote: post #18

Slide 43: Contention that Transistors are comparable to cells. This crazy talk is continued throughout the presentation. Slide 44: Contends that Moore's law will continue for the next 300 years. Slide 58: A fantastic butchering of Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Slide 61: Unsubstantiated (probably wrong) claim life expectancy is going to linearly increase for the next 300 years. Slide 73: Contention that storage scales…

This is the company that manages $285,000,000,000 worth of assets.

But capitalism is a meritocratic system

Re: SoftBank Next 30-Year Vision (2010) [pdf]

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Post by nairboon »

Unfortunately the 30-year vision will take longer than the projected 30 years due to a slight miscalculation: the number of human brain cells is not 30B as it should for a 30year plan but is actually a bit larger. Number of neurons alone is 80+B therefore using the softbank-linear-interpolation-method, the targeted cloud-downloadable-happiness-rate of 30 EH (exa-happinesses) will not be realized in 30 years and takes least 80.

Re: SoftBank Next 30-Year Vision (2010) [pdf]

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Post by changchuming »

wozniacki wrote: post #23

Has anyone written about the earliest origins of Softbank's massive war chest? You'd on occasion hear about Softbank in the late aughts but nothing worthy of note. And then suddenly just like that it was everywhere. They hired Nikesh Arora who was let go just as swiftly as they hired him. As President & Chief Operating Officer of SoftBank Corp. Arora received over $200 million in compensation over the last two years"…

They got lucky by investing in Alibaba and cashed out. Made 100bil that way and suddenly everyone thought Masa was a genius. Saudi princes started giving him free money and the rest is history.
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