Doesn't anyone here think this sounds like a vision of hell? While we are all competing or dying, when will there be time for sex or music or books? Stop the world, I want to get off.

After six weeks he was drafted into the United States Army serving a year of his two years services in the Vietnam War. He left two years later to join Sony. Stringer attended Oundle School in Northamptonshire alongwith 11 other secondary schools by the time he was 16.

Sir Howard Stringer (born February 19 1942) is a British-born American businessman. He is the Chairman of the Board and former president and CEO of Sony Corporation.