Honda has just unveiled their Motocompacto, an electric scooter that, incredibly, folds into a rectangle just 3.7" wide, 21.1" tall and 29.2" long. In its briefcase form, it takes up little space and can be fully charged from a regular wall outlet in 3.5 hours.
Japanese business execs very much are all still living in 1985. Japan, especially its corporate culture, is infamous for being stuck in the past. This is bafflingly at odds with its outside perception of being a nation full of bleeding edge innovation. And it is… but only in some aspects.
Japan is almost exclusively run by old men. Traditionalism is tough to budge there. A ridiculous amount of mission critical business communication in Japan still relies on fax machines. Not email. Not messenger apps. Fax machines. In 2023.
Anyhow, even if the rest of the world has turned away from the briefcase we’ve just replaced it with the laptop bag anyway.
I jokingly call myself a weeb because I like some Anime/manga/LN/WN and had/have an interest in their history and culture… but because of such interest in history I also know of a lot of terrible things they’ve done, plus how conservative and bigoted the country is. They’ve always been resistant ro change, and proud of it. I haven’t fully kept up, but like America, they also love to hide their atrocities.
Japanese business execs very much are all still living in 1985. Japan, especially its corporate culture, is infamous for being stuck in the past. This is bafflingly at odds with its outside perception of being a nation full of bleeding edge innovation. And it is… but only in some aspects.
Japan is almost exclusively run by old men. Traditionalism is tough to budge there. A ridiculous amount of mission critical business communication in Japan still relies on fax machines. Not email. Not messenger apps. Fax machines. In 2023.
Anyhow, even if the rest of the world has turned away from the briefcase we’ve just replaced it with the laptop bag anyway.
I live in the US and a business asked me if I could fax them something just a couple of weeks ago. I replied “From where? 1985?”
I jokingly call myself a weeb because I like some Anime/manga/LN/WN and had/have an interest in their history and culture… but because of such interest in history I also know of a lot of terrible things they’ve done, plus how conservative and bigoted the country is. They’ve always been resistant ro change, and proud of it. I haven’t fully kept up, but like America, they also love to hide their atrocities.