the darkerside to rants

… though you’d have to move to Japan, like Hrvoje is doing right now.

Ken Kawakita is sitting on his living room floor, checking train schedules on the Internet, using a laptop computer running Windows over a wireless AirPort from Apple Computer. His son, Taro, 11, is downloading a game on his iBook over the same network, while daughter, Mari, 13, converses with a friend by e-mail over her mobile phone on KDDI’s “au” network.
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Takao, Ken’s wife, has a mobile phone on the table near her hand, although she is not using it at the moment. Like her daughter’s and many others in Japan, its carrying strap is decorated with trinkets, showing the affectionate place they hold as a personal item. Daughter Hanna, 8, is asleep on the couch, but she could easily be surfing the Internet on her Mac.

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(via Jean Snow’s Blog)