I believe the continually advancing Information Revolution will lend us the wisdom and strength to address humanity's previously unsolvable problems and help us make a positive impact on all of society.
Interpretation
Advancements in information technology will empower us to solve major societal issues.
This quote emphasizes the transformative power of the Information Revolution, suggesting that as technology advances, it provides us with the tools and insights necessary to tackle some of humanity's greatest challenges. It reflects an optimistic view that these advancements can lead to positive societal impact, enabling us to address problems that have previously seemed insurmountable.
In practice
During a technology conference discussing future innovations.
In the early stages of Internet in Japan, many said that Japanese and Americans are different. There are 10 reasons why Japanese Internet is not taking off. I said none of them are right; it's just a time lag. And, of course, Japanese Internet took off.
I don't care whether the technology is invented by our employees. I want to bring everybody's innovations into our ecosystem together.
Most of the time, when I make a big move, people say I am out of my mind. But I don't think about how I can add to what I have today.
I believe this artificial intelligence is going to be our partner. If we misuse it, it will be a risk. If we use it right, it can be our partner.
As a student, I had a hobby of inventing new ideas for products. For me, thinking of new businesses is like inventing new products.
Whenever there is a big difficulty, I don't make excuses. Instead, I say I will solve it even if everybody leaves.
What the computer in virtual reality enables us to do is to recalibrate ourselves so that we can start seeing those pieces of information that are invisible to us but have become important for us to understand.
Quite a lot has been written, including by me, about the effect of social media on politics, and in particular the way in which the algorithms built into Facebook and YouTube are more likely to spread angry, extremist and deliberately provocative political language.
Government isn't that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you've got to have commercial companies do it.
More and more Americans feel threatened by runaway technology, by large-scale organization, by overcrowding. More and more Americans are appalled by the ravages of industrial progress, by the defacement of nature, by man-made ugliness. If our society continues at its present rate to become less livable as it becomes more affluent, we promise all to end up in sumptuous misery.
Access to information, to music or any kind of culture, is getting faster and faster and more streamlined. At each juncture, people are thrown into tumult and have to adapt or die.
China may censor YouTube. China may censor Twitter. They won't be able to censor Bitcoin. There's no central authority. There's no one you can go to and say, 'We're going to turn Bitcoin off.'
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