As I sat on a tatami mat in the library of a 300-year-old Kyoto ryokan, my eyes were drawn to a Japanese translation of Walter Isaacson’s book, Steve Jobs.
Yes, I was on vacation and, yes, on my honeymoon. But tech is ubiquitous, and when you’re in a place you’ve never been before, you starkly see what’s the same and what’s different. Like seeing Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes in “ScreenX,” a movie theater that projects in an awkward 270 degrees (I don’t think it’ll catch on). Or the legendary Japanese toilets, which really should catch on. Or simply the fact that the top Nippon Baseball team is the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks.
