These sorts of things are meaningless overall though. Where I'm from nearly everything is done digitally, most people are used to paying with digital wallets, we're all on digital ID, and we hardly have paper anywhere. But everybody is still poor, miserable and struggling. I never liked the idea that having minor convenience technology is what makes for a futuristic society. Give us public transport, healthcare and jobs, even if I have to do everything on paper for the rest of my life, that's decades more advanced than what most people get these days, lol.
I agree with your idea of futuristic but when people say “living in 2050” they are referring to the advances in technology.
The fax thing is not an exception, for example, they make it hard to do things online, often requiring physical copy of documents that you used their website to fill.
I live here, and it gets frustrating how difficult some things here are which these days takes 5 minutes inmost of the countries.
I agree with you like Capitalist Tears, but I think it's less the Japanese being in the future - moreso a lot of us are stuck in fucking 1650 with the completely abysmal social structures we have
When my ex lived there she could only pay rent using cash in an envelope.
Based and "fuck invisible money" pilled.
Don't use digital money. Keep physical in circulation or you will never actually have the money you are supposed to
save up all your revolution monies and cash in when you want to retire . your pension will only be stolen anyway
Japan really is living in the future though. Every night when I go to bed on the US west coast, those guys are already waking up for their day tomorrow wtf???
the US must not stand for living behind the Japanese, the US must officially annex their territory to get and stay ahead!
pretty sure there are already US territories in the Pacific east of Japan in terms of timezone
I think part of it is America being so barbarically backwards in the basics of modern society and partly consumption worship removed
Japanese websites and any of there internet based systems are so bad that there should be a helpline for the mental damage it causes.
How are they bad? Is it just because they aren't the bloated nightmares we've had shoved down our throats?
The UI is a reflection of the hoardings and signs you see in the pictures of streets full of signboards. It’s bloated with information. They lack basic understanding of how design works through digital interfaces. It is centuries behind anything you would see in the rest of the world.
They also ignore security standards and best practices of building modern websites. A very frequent and glaring ignorance of basic security practice that you encounter in Japanese software is restricting the length of passwords to something absurdly small like 8 characters WITH no special characters allowed.
casa de papel 2 : Japan
but it's a miniseries because they break into the bank on the second try - 1234bank (but in Japanese, obviously)
Idk about UI design, but from personal experience, Japanese software feels really weak. I play a popular Japanese CCG and the tournament software they use is really bad. At the big events there's 30m+ of downtime between rounds because there's no automated way to input match slips. At 2000+ person attendance it crashes the site so you can't see online pairings which makes everyone in the venue scramble to the printed pairings. When they announce banlist updates, the website crashes from the traffic. A lot of this feels like a solved problem from other big firms and game publishers, but the Japanese ones without fail have consistently awful software that feels stuck in the 90s by comparison.
