The paradox of the use of technology in Japan: a country that, despite the advanced technology, still used fax and cassettes

Perhaps the first image of Japan would come to our mind, bustling cities, people are diligent and advanced technologies.

The overall picture is no doubt.Japanese companies are creative and use technology that is common in this country than in other first world countries so they can be used. But this coin has another side:

Did you know that Japan is still the officers are employed to adjust the traffic lights and some software companies use 10 years ago. In Japan even still video cassettes sold to other agencies and leading corporations such as Sony, still use fax.

It can be said that Japanese companies as a whole in the context of the adoption of new technologies (in his work), about 10 years behind that of other companies in developed countries. It is difficult to accept that the country's first contactless payment system, trains and made the Walkman, is such a case.

But the reality is, though, that Japan paid mobile phone bills easily, but someone who does not use electronic wallets, using Skype and Dropbox fans there is not. All this despite the fact that Japan, the world's best Internet infrastructure!

Where is the problem?

According to experts, the cause of this strange is that small and medium companies, 99. 7% of 4. 2 million businesses are registered in the country. So much of the Japanese economy, the world's third largest economy is not well-known multinational corporations, but also small companies Mychrkhannd.

Culture in the company culture is conservative, based on the paper and fax mail messages, even Fks·hayy the normal script written, is popular. Even companies that offer technological advances in our products, our employees are required to use e-mail services like email systems 1997. In many cases, the email system and internal communication Cyboz is that it is only a text message. In addition, the servers that are used for this work, so small that they have staff from time to time, delete old messages to make room for the new ones!

No! Many places are not even talking about Dropbox or another collaboration tool called Basecamp that. Heads even keen to send information via CD!

Under such conditions, reduce the level of creativity, predictably, on the other hand, the Japanese and their fear of identity theft is probably conservative. Perhaps that is why they prefer to do offline work possible.