about to go to Tokyo for work!

[oniugnip]

Feb 2015: a young man of Jewish extraction hops across the ocean with his German coworkers to meet up with their Japanese coworkers, in Tokyo. They will discuss various planned improvements to a computer program capable of translating between every single human language that has more than 100 million speakers

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[lindseykuper]

<3

[mindstalk]

"His pocket supercomputer will immediately allow him to stay in contact with his friends and family, with no particular prior arrangements."

Will it? I wouldn't expect US phones to work over there, it's their own version of CDMA AIUI. Not counting wifi, of course.

[oniugnip]

Apparently yes!

I mean, we'll find out. But they say it will! And it worked like a champ when I was in Iceland, so I'm inclined to believe them.

[mindstalk]

Iceland probably uses GSM, like the rest of Europe, the same as T-Mobile and AT&T use. Hrm, reading that page, I wonder if it's a case where 3G or 4G work in Japan, but 2G wouldn't...

[oniugnip]

Confirmed! Replying on telephone, from airplane. \m/

[deepdistraction]

And perhaps this young man will leave his non-helpful advisor in the dust regarding the fulfillment of his dream to allow people of any background across the world to exchange ideas with one another

[jcreed]

Yeah would indeed be a pretty heartwarming reverse-timecapsule message for someone living like 80 years ago.