NTT EXPO2025 StatementCreate Happy Progress

Progress alone
Cannot create happiness.
Create happy progress.

Was progress ever truly happiness?

Technological progress has enabled us to connect anywhere at any time.
However, instead of this bringing greater understanding, it has accelerated divisions and led to new conflicts on a daily basis.
Progress has also lead to enormous energy consumption, further worsening the global environment.

It is now clear that progress does not always lead to happiness.
At such a time, what humanity must do is neither shut down our thinking and charge toward ruin, nor give up entirely.
What we must do is create a new form of progress.
IOWN. We are building a next-generation communication infrastructure that is environmentally friendly, with outstandingly low power consumption.
It’s a departure from the era of using electricity as if it were unlimited, and continuing to harm the global environment in the name of advanced technology.
Then we can create a world where we share the joy of connecting with one another.
Even if we can’t understand everything about each other, we can imagine. We can listen.
And surely we can coexist.

Let’s create a new kind of progress.
For the planet, and for humanity.
Create happy progress.