What the Japanese are, are the Americans of the 21st century. Essentially what is objectionable about them is what was objectionable about Americans when we had the ball. However, they are committed in a way that American technology is not.

Its not a global village, but we're in a highly interconnected globe.

The neural network is this kind of technology that is not an algorithm, it is a network that has weights on it, and you can adjust the weights so that it learns. You teach it through trials.

Like most modern Americans, I assume individuality is not only a fundamental value, but a goal in life, an art form.

Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.

Make your own fun. As opposed to consume fun like a package of Spam.

Americans love technology, like jet planes and hot rods and televisions. It's a real conflict between the denial of, "gee this is going to break people out of their regular frames," and "gee it's a new technology I have got to have it."