The 13 craziest slides that show SoftBank's vision for the next 300 years
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 Apple and 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.
Here are the 13 craziest slides from the presentation he used that depict SoftBank's investment strategy:
The slide deck was found online by a Fortune journalist.
It shows some of the things that SoftBank wants to focus on.
And it gives a sense of the strategy SoftBank is using to invest its billions.
See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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