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Promoting Japanese pop music information is also going on working with music
industry.
My laboratory is running the website and data base “SYNC MUSIC JAPAN”
that one thousand five hundred J-Pop bands, (that means almost all the famous pop
musicians in Japan), participate in.
My project currently concentrates on Japanese local pop culture. However, of
course, digital technology empowers every local culture on earth, the important
thing, I believe, is to recognize what kind of culture you have in your hand, and to
find out how to activate it with the help of digital technology.
What I am concerned about is whether we are imagining the future enough. I
hear that small-sized mpeg4 video of 70 years length, needs ten terabytes of storage
capacity.
Now, terabyte holding HDDs cost only five hundred US dollars. Let's embed a
camera in every baby's head so that they can shoot what they see look at in their
daily lives, while they are awake, say, 70 years. It only costs around 500 US dollars
each.
You can accumulate them all, connect them all, share them all, and modify them
all. You will get a big parallel virtual visual space other than this real world. Then,
what is going to happen? I don't have an answer. My imagination stops there. It's
beyond my imagination. The point is that technology is already in my hand, products
are already in my hand, but the imagination is neither in my hand nor in my mind.
In 2005, Mr. Eric Schmidt at Google said that all the amount of information in
the world was five Exabyte and that Google had already input 1 % of them into
their database. He added that 300 more years were needed to input all data into the
database.
I thought that it would be possible, and that they would achieve it. But I couldn't
imagine what would happen after that. We still may not imagine what three centuries
after are going to be like.
