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My young assistant was good at drawing pictures. In 2005, I introduced her to an
Internet community, and there she got a chance to draw Manga about a strange cat
maid on a commercial website. A publisher found her and published the Manga
topic as her debut work, which soon became a smash hit, and she suddenly became
a millionaire.
Now many entertainment companies ask me, “please introduce me to her next
Manga”, “let's hold an event for the cat”, “allow us to develop character goods
and Anime of the cat” ... . Today, I am her assistant. That's what the Internet made
possible.
In the end of 2006, the person of the year in TIME magazine was “YOU”. A mirror
was attached on the surface of the magazine, and a photo of a PC was surrounded the
mirror. It described that each reader, yourself in the mirror, gained power through
IT. Yes, 2006 was the year of the “Web 2.0”.
That was what Japanese naughty kids had pointed out by voting for Mr. Tashiro
5 years before. Five years were necessary for TIME to recognize what was going on
in the world.
Digitalization is changing the world rapidly from the bottom, even though it may
be difficult to see from an analog and established stage.
According to a research by Technorati in 2007, among all the blogs in the world,
the most used language was Japanese. Japanese occupied 37 % and exceeded En-
glish (36 %). This must have been caused by teenaged mobile phone users. Even
Japanese adults didn't recognize this situation. Without clearly recognizing, we must
be heading for a society where everyone on earth uploads something every minute.
The struggle of how to construct a digital society is still going on.
In Egypt, networked people removed the political administration in 2011. In NYC
and London, networked people demonstrated disturbance in 2012. On the other hand,
some nations are eager to control people, trying to regulate the Internet society.
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