The Japanese Drive On The Left Side

The Japanese Drive On The Left Side Of The Road. Most Streets Literally Do Not Have Names.

Japanese Maps Tend To Come In Two Varieties: Small, Schematic, And Bewildering; And Large, Fantastically Detailed, And Bewildering.

Scientists Have Established Huge Numbers Of Links Between Particular Diseases And Snippets Of Dna, But In The Great Majority Of Cases, This Has Not Yet Been Translated Into Treatments That Can Help Cure Patients. These Treatments Will Come - Tomorrow, Or The Day After.

The Japanese Are Great At Inventing Complex Systems Of Rules, And Not So Great At Explaining Those Rules To Foreign Visitors.

Major Power And Telephone Grids Have Long Been Controlled By Computer Networks, But Now Similar Systems Are Embedded In Such Mundane Objects As Electric Meters, Alarm Clocks, Home Refrigerators And Thermostats, Video Cameras, Bathroom Scales, And Christmas-tree Lights - All Of Which Are, Or Soon Will Be, Accessible Remotely.