Tokyo, every mention
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every year anyone Benedict Evans 11Toni Cowan-Brown 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Tokyo comes up
A double episode: AI differentiation, and Apple does F1
- ▶ 0:42 Benedict Evans Um, I did this absurd layover where I landed in Tokyo at five in the morning and then took off to go to Singapore at six in the evening. 2 times in the scene
Metaverse - beyond the buzzword
- ▶ 31:31 Benedict Evans I mean, I remember years, a very long time ago, in like, as it might be, 2000, the hot mobile service in the time, Entity Docomo, had a mobile operated vending machine in a, in a train station in Tokyo.
The Business of publishing
- ▶ 45:23 Benedict Evans There's a shop in Tokyo that I've written about that only sells one book. 3 times in the scene
Bezos and the Amazon machine
- ▶ 40:07 Benedict Evans This is to the point we made at the beginning, Amazon as a machine to manufacture more Amazon, as opposed to, and I think I've mentioned this before, the bookshop in Tokyo that only sells one book at a time.
The history of doom-scrolling
- ▶ 27:54 Benedict Evans One of my kind of talking points in this is there's a store in Tokyo that just sells one book.
The acceleration of ecommerce habits
- ▶ 18:14 Benedict Evans The other extreme is there, somebody told me a while ago about a shop in Ginza, which is like the high-end retail part of Tokyo, that just sells one book, like literally one title, and they change it every week, or maybe every month, and… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:34 Toni Cowan-Brown I know it's in a different way, but couldn't you say they've successfully tried to replicate that, you know, one book, one book in a bookstore in Tokyo?
Amazon and eCommerce
- ▶ 35:23 Benedict Evans I mean, I read a while ago about a shop in Ginza in Tokyo that just sells one book.