• Squiddles@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I heard Japan described as being “stuck in the year 2000 since the 1980’s”. I think South Korea fits the original question better than Japan nowadays.

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      Yeah, Japan had a massive tech boom in the 80s and 90s, but then just kinda stopped growing that field. It’s still there and still a strong industry in Japan, but the cultural tech hype isn’t there anymore, it seems.

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      1 year ago

      I think Shanghai/China fits it even better. The convenience and technological advances are moving crazy fast.

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        Visited Shanghai in 2019 on my way home from Tokyo and I would concur with this. It was “the city of the future” we all saw in concept art, minus the hover cars (they had lots of helicopters tho).

        It’s a real shame that Great Chinese Firewall separated off communication and fueled distrust with Chinese and Western citizens. Our governments and businesses may butt heads over a tonne of things, but there is a lot of tech and lifestyle stuff I would love to import from there, and I have many friends in Shanghai that think the same of our lifestyles in Europe. Too bad collaboration is close to impossible at this point.