Re: the future long term financial apocalypse of the USA

Gary R. Schmidt <grschmidt@acm.org> wrote:

 

Never dealt with Japan, have you?
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I'm supporting systems there that will *not* be replaced unless and
until they collapse into a pile of rust.
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Then there'll be a massive panic, because, of course, no-one is planning
on how to replace them - and yes, that has been pointed out to them, and
yes, I got into trouble.

This is kind of a weird thing, because back in the seventies and eighties
the Japanese were proud of pushing the technology and promoting all the
latest new stuff.  New technologies like videotex and fax machines got
tested in Japan years before the rest of the world.

But now things are frozen and they are still using the same videotex
systems and fax machines that they were using decades ago.  I am not
really sure I understand how things got this way.

MITI used to have the motto "It is always tomorrow in Japan" but it
no longer seems appropriate.
--scott
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