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Japan Promises an Ultra-High-Tech 2020 Olympics
jfruh writes "When Japan first hosted the Olympics in 1964, it was a platform for the country to showcase that it was a first-rate technical nation, with brand new bullet trains for visitors and the games broadcast in color via satellite for the first time. Japan's tech industry is already preparing for the 2020 Tokyo Games, with Japanese companies promising ultra-high-def TV, super-fast cell phone networks, and autonomous self-driving cars on the roads."
All events will involve Wii-motes.
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. . . last time one of my friends visited Tokyo, he spent two hours (jokingly) asking directions to the Godzilla Victims Memorial. ;-)
2020, wow! That's only 7 years away, can they get ready that fast?
Well, I suppose if Chinese gymnasts not yet born can get ready by then, they can, too.
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In 2020, I would expect nothing less than armed Mechs patrolling the streets. Not some American OCP ED-209 garbage either, no, only a sleek and shiny Gundam, Veritech, or some other type of mech will do.
Fifty watts per channel, baby cakes.
... will be self-heating and will glow in the dark.
I mean we all know that's why they create lifelike looking robots, instead of producing roomba's or drones.
From the stories I've heard about what goes on in the Olympic Village, the sex-bots would be superfluous.
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They're probably waiting until they get the tentacles working correctly.
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I bet if we went back to 1964 and told the folks designing the Shikansen that they'd get double the Olympics out of them, they would dance with glee. I have to say the two hour train ride between Tokyo and Kyoto was clean, comfortable, and kicked the butt of any equivalent plane ride.
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