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Mar. 11th, 2003 01:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrewduckerFurther to the entry on mobiles a few dayss ago, here's an article on how the japanese use mobiles:
When I was a teenager growing up in Tokyo in the '80s, telephone cards, pay phones, and urban landmarks were the technologies that coordinated our action on the street. We would begin with a set time and place, usually a major landmark like Hachiko Square in Shibuya crossing, or the Almond Café at Roppongi crossing. I remember hours spent at these teeming street corners, sweating in the heat, shivering in the cold, making forays to a pay phone to check on latecomers or for messages at home.
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Teens and twentysomethings usually do not bother to set a time and place for their meetings. They exchange as many as 5 to 15 messages throughout the day that progressively narrows in on a time and place, two points eventually converging in a coordinated dance through the urban jungle. To not have a keitai is to be walking blind, disconnected from just-in-time information on where and when you are in the social networks of time and place.
