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So this is a reminder that there are other countries and cultures that even today might have a different set of technologies which can be even more advanced than the European/US variants.

Oct 23, 2020 · 08:29

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This reminded me that Japan really had a divergent set of technology. They had PCs with Japanese cha...

Oct 23, 2020 · 08:26

And as the Wikipedia article explains cellphones that could do email when we were still stuck with W...

Oct 23, 2020 · 08:27

They also had their own lines of home computers. As a kid, we would spend the summer vacations at my...

Oct 23, 2020 · 08:28

So this is a reminder that there are other countries and cultures that even today might have a diffe...

Oct 23, 2020 · 08:29

Not implying that everybody thinks that Europe/US is better, but I guess for many that’s the frame o...

Oct 23, 2020 · 08:34

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