by isaokato | May 11, 2012 | Post
we do not want to pay for our memories. The films that remind us of our childhood, the music that accompanied us ten years ago: in the external memory network these are simply memories. Remembering them, exchanging them, and developing them is to us something as...
by isaokato | May 10, 2012 | Post
It’s a funny thing. No matter how low you sink there’s still a right and wrong. You always end up choosing. You go one way so you can try to live with yourself. You go the other, you’d still be walkin’ around, but you’re dead and you...
by isaokato | May 9, 2012 | Post
I’m sitting there in a nice restaurant in San Francisco with all these executives of a major publishing house. It’s one of these power dinners of lore. We’re there to discuss the upcoming launch of the book, and I’ll never forget what happened. They asked me, “OK,...
by isaokato | May 9, 2012 | Japanese
by mroach なぜ僕たち日本人がなかなか英語など外国語を身につけられないのか、すでに１万回くらい議論が繰り返されています。僕自身は「使えなくても仕事が得られるから」という理由を支持してきました。ここではもう一つ、あまり語られていない理由を述べてみます。 日本語があらゆる外国語を日本語化してしまうからです。...
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