Maybe Toshiba should stick to TVs and cassette decks

[garbon]

A dark society would have been better?

Not necessarily dark. I just read an interview with William Gibson, where he says that Japan is one of the best places for future nostalgia, as its innovative spirit in the 80s and 90s promised a myriad ambitious futures. He laments that this society wide spirit of "thinking big" (according to him also present in the American 50s) has largely disappeared disappeared. People were curious what life in the 21st century would be like. Who's asking what life in the 22nd will be like? (Though personally I think that had a lot to do with the year 2000 milestone having a bigger radiance than 2100.)

It was just those photos looked quite grim (well actually of them ).

[Syt]

Fair enough.