MIT’s Technology Review has a short interview with USC/Keio researcher Mizuko Ito about her latest book Personal, Portable, Pedestrian : Mobile Phones in Japanese Life. One of the interesting quotes for all of us in the US mobile industry considering other markets is:

I think one of the things that we were trying to argue in the book is that there isn’t a single trajectory [for technology development]. If you look at Japan, South Korea, and the U.S., their technology trajectories have been completely different.