Is Japan Ready for a Network State?

A month in Japan, and what the network state looks like when it meets an enduring culture I spent a month at a pop-up city in Japan this summer. This piece comes out of that month and earlier

A month in Japan, and what the network state looks like when it meets an enduring culture I spent a month at a pop-up city in Japan this summer. This piece comes out of that month and earlier conversations in Chiang Mai with Kiba Gateaux of ZuCity Japan and my friend Jane, who has a home in Japan and is part of the ZuCity community. This is a sister piece to TOKOWAKA, by my friends Ryu and Seiko of 369Meteor. We came away with different but overlapping questions about culture, belonging, and wha