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Re:America is getting an AI gold rush instead of a factory boom by jjice on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @04:13PM (#45584224)
Just got back from a trip to Japan and I found that Tokyo and Kyoto also met most of your criteria.

Cash is still pretty common there and definitely can't go cashless (nor would I personally like to), and there's no delivery drones that I'm aware of (I also don't particularly care for that, personally).

I'm not even sure it's that they're ahead, I think we've just fallen behind in a lot of those cases.

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Re:America is getting an AI gold rush instead of a factory boom by karunamurti on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @10:46PM (#45587564)
You can if you're local. Either IC card or credit card or payment app. I helped developed Merpay, one of the local payment app. These days I almost never use cash.

In China it's even better, even street vendor use QR payment.

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