>It was not an accident that software did well in the most hippy region in the US, San Francisco. On the contrary, hardware development, due to much more constr

>It was not an accident that software did well in the most hippy region in the US, San Francisco. On the contrary, hardware development, due to much more constraints from the laws of physics and economics, has been done well in Japan et al as careful top-down planning is the edge, not individual-level agility. So, Japan could be doing software like many think it should be done: as an well designed engineering practice.