Now, I understand that the Japanese Digital Agency has been founded since September 2021, and we just founded our Ministry of Digital Affairs August 27th. I fully expect that there will be more chance of digital affairs exchange in the future. I’m very willing to travel to Japan for that.

I have visited Japan many times before the pandemic and I remain very concerned about the revival of the Northeast Region. Now, as you know, I had planned to attend the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics but had to cancel because of counter-epidemic reasons.

OK.

Yeah, two minutes. Start counting...

I was just talking with Saskia Sassen about that on a radio show a few hours ago. She has this idea of expulsion. People just dislocate, because of the ecological impact and the governmental issues that Blaise just described. The fact is that they fell ...

Can I take two minutes?

Again, just one word from me. We have existential proof in the form of a project that is sponsoring work with some free software people. It’s called Sandstorm. What it does is it flips the default. It makes it possible to think of the web like you install apps on ...

Just a quick word. In the beginning of the free software movement, Richard Stallman who started this idea of free software, defined four different kind of freedoms about software.

The first, the second, and the third freedom is to take a program and to modify it, to distribute it. That ...

Let’s show this in stereo.

It is my wish that — this is also a French idea, from Lacan — this Borromean Knot means all the three sectors cannot do without each other. If one breaks, everyone breaks. We’re in the same earth together. This is my hope, that with the digital democratic tools, we ...

Because of time, I have to rush this a little bit. But the point is that I was just talking with Blaise, and we thought in virtual reality a facilitator can talk with not just 300 people with telecommunication and telepresence. We can talk with 7,000 people, as we have ...

That’s Minister Jaclyn Tsai, originally led IBM Asia’s law department. The thing is that after this kind of method, we extract promise from all the stakeholders. If their promise overlap, we have a bill right there. If we don’t, if it needs more clarification, help from the local government and ...

There’s one saying in politics: "Where you stand depend on where you sit."

If we all sit in our respective drivers’ seats, so to speak, we of course argue for the thing that we stand. There is no neutral space and mediation space where we can see other people’s viewpoints. ...

Actually, during this whole event, during lunch, and during the radio interviews, I’ve been asking Saskia Sassen, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, and everybody I met to put on this goggles and watch Earth with me together.

This is relevant because when we’re facing issues of a global scale, they enable us ...

Right. From space, we all look very small, and we are very tightly bound together. We share the Earth. All of our problems are of a global scale at the moment, including the climate and everything that people at this night have talked about. The observer effect makes us able ...

I’m happy to be here to talk about the day after tomorrow. The midnight reminds us that we are among the stars. If you look up in the night sky, you see that Earth is a place among the stars. I’ve been working with the technology called virtual reality. I ...

I can see a recursive image of my own screen from the mirrors there. This is actually pretty metaphoric.

Film crew will just film my screen. This is mirrors of mirrors.

No, it’s not.

Everybody will see my screen this way, and then I will play the slides for Blaise. You can see my screen.

Without further ado, I will just play my slides, which is very short, like 15 minutes, and then play Blaise’s slides. Again, 15 minutes, if that’s ...

Sorry for the technical difficulties. Because Blaise has a slide that’s entirely visual, we have to fix the filming problem. We devised a solution.