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Originally Posted by GoNative
Probably the funniest low tech thing I've ever experienced here was when my wife and I got our Japanese drivers licences. The women at the cashiers desk added up our bill on an abacus!! Japan a high tech nation?  |
Surely you have lived there long enough to see where they show TV shows where people can add up figures faster using a abacus than a calculator, and tend to be more accurate.
"Low tech" does not mean worse.
The abacus has been in use for over 4000 years. If it ain't broke, why fix it? Just because it isn't used in the West doesn't mean it is bad.