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Originally Posted by RickOShay
I am sorry what exactly do you mean by "cutting edge people"? Like Japan is some sort of technological utopia? This is a common stereotype people who have never lived here (Japan) tend to have, you should give this article a read: BBC News - Revealing Japan's low-tech belly |
This article just emphasizes the point I was making above. the CULTURE leads the technology, not the other way around. For everything I see in Japan that makes my jaw drop in terms of technological advance I don't have at home, there is something that shocks me because it doesn't exist.
Again, culture leads the technology. If people wanted central heat, they could have it. But the public in Japan seems to prefer localized heat, rather then centralized heat. (More than one Japanese person has said to me "Why are you heating rooms no one is in?") So the shocker is cold houses in winter, but that led to heated toilet seats, which are as about as close to heaven as you are going to get on earth.
Just because a technology we take for granted in our home country doesn't exist in Japan does not make Japan backwards or behind the times. If they don't need it, they don't need it.