Word: techs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Power, Corruption, and Lies does not fall short because it succumbs to the temptation to doodle with the high-tech equipment--a fate that has K.O.'ed "serious" synthers OMD, Yazoo, and Tears for Fears. Rather, the album comes across as a noble, but failed, attempt to recapture and combine the spirit of "Temptation" and the oh-sochic alienation of "Blue Monday...
...Japanese workers enjoy lifetime employment, a fondly cooperative relationship with management and a mutual delight in the company song. True, there is less than 3% unemployment. But, in fact, Japan has a schizophrenic business system, a dual economy. The myth applies to 30% of it, in the high-tech and highly productive companies. But the other 70% of Japanese workers labor in smaller, considerably less efficient industries. There, they receive low wages and few financial benefits, if any. Such workers bounce from job to job within that traditional economy; last year there were 17,000 bankruptcies in Japan...
...major U.S. electronics firm. Japanese women are all but barred from the management of big companies, and the important after-hours business socializing in Japan is exclusively stag. Another admonition is not to send someone under 35 to conduct negotiations. Says an American official with a high-tech firm: "You are insulting the Japanese by sending a young man to deal with a senior executive, who is likely...
...modern Japan, the box full of microchips. Both represent a culture of linear flow: the processing of information, sensuous or electronic, through standardized components that can modulate content rapidly and to an infinite degree by rearrangement. The bento-bako is the archetype of modular coordination; food culture and high tech are, in spirit, the same. In short, the TV dinner begat the TV set, so to speak...
...science and medicine, fewer than Britain (41), West Germany (14) or France (6), all countries with significantly smaller populations, and much fewer than the U.S. (109). But that is likely to change as Japan increases its government investment in science. It is already a world leader in such high-tech fields as microelectronics, robotics and communications. Less well known...