Computers in Japan

Apparently PC use is on the decline in Japan. Of course, this comes as no suprise to me, but I thought I'd share with everyone just how little the average Japanese person knows about computers. For starters, only about 3 (out of the 40) people in my class have an e-mail address (cell-phone e-mail not included). In America, I bet you I couldn't find one student out of 3,000 who doesn't have an e-mail address. Japanese highschoolers have their own version of facebook called mixi (of course, accessible from your cellphone) so they don't need a computer for social networking either.

While computers seem to be going out of style in Japan, I don't think that this is any indicator of the future of America. I'll agree that browsing the internet from your phone is quite convenient, but there is absolutely no way that browsing the internet on a 3-inch wide screen will replace browsing on the computer, at least not in America.