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Revealing Japan's Low-Tech Belly
- jac_no_k 16y agoIt's a strange place to live. It's a mixture of old pre-internet methods that work mixed with some fantastically modern infrastructure. What works: Whenever I have business with the local ward (city | government) office, a lot of the work is done without computers. Yet my requests are serviced very quickly. Very much unlike say the DMV in Southern California. What works: High speed Internet, whether wired or through the cell network. Fail: ATMs that seem to be down for maintenance constantly. Why the constant down time? Fail: General attitude on change. Just accepting the way things are is norm, even if it's broken or flawed. It's strange since so many strive for perfection. Fail: In general, the people here are very very smart. But very few people have an original idea and enough will to execute. Related to the Fail above.