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Anime appears to be the primary lens on the future for a significant chunk of people below 40. Developed world expecting the postmodern future to be like Japan’s is a bit like how the developing world expected their futures to be like America’s through the 80s.
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Starting in the 90s, various divergence phenomena like Africa leapfrogging, illiberal tech progress etc shattered the notion that development was one modernization/westernization/Americanization path. I expect similar divergence-from-Japan for developed world postmodern futures.