Historically, Large-scale Global Trade Has Served Two

Historically, Large-scale Global Trade Has Served Two Functions: 1) The Exchange Of Goods Between Willing Sellers And Buyers Described In Econ 101 Textbooks; 2) As A Tool Of State Aggrandizement, In Which The Private Parties Are Stand-ins For Governmental Interests.

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

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

The Embrace Of A New Technology By Ordinary People Leads Inevitably To Its Embrace By People Of Malign Intent.

A Smartphone Links Patients' Bodies And Doctors' Computers, Which In Turn Are Connected To The Internet, Which In Turn Is Connected To Any Smartphone Anywhere. The New Devices Could Put The Management Of An Individual's Internal Organs In The Hands Of Every Hacker, Online Scammer, And Digital Vandal On Earth.