This came to mind while wondering at the AI (Salami) PR onslaught in Japan. Quite the Fad: Fast Fashion!?!??
> As I write (in fact, it is the reason why I write), the United States is the only culture to have become a Technopoly. It is a young Technopoly, and we can assume that it wishes not merely to have been the first but to remain the most highly developed. Therefore, it watches with a careful eye Japan and several European nations that are striving to become Technopolies as well.
#NeilPostman #Technopoly #JapanAsTechnopoly #AIFad #AISalami
> The three top-selling Japanese novels in 2007 were... originally written on mobile phones...why young readers are abandoning traditional novels: “They don’t read works by professional writers because their sentences are too difficult to understand, their expressions are intentionally wordy, and the stories are not familiar to them.”.. cell phone novels may never extend beyond Japan, a country given to #PeculiarFads, but the novels nevertheless demonstrate how changes in reading inevitably spur changes in writing.
#AIAsFad #AIJapan #JapaneseFads