Back to future with Japan

This Washington Post article, posted on his Facebook page by Hugo E. Martin has a distinctly 1980s feel to it. It is full of angst and chest beating about how Japan is racing ahead of the US with better Internet technology. It begins:

Americans invented the Internet, but the Japanese are running away with it. Broadband service here is eight to 30 times as fast as in the United States -- and considerably cheaper. Japan has the world's fastest Internet connections, delivering more data at a lower cost than anywhere else, recent studies show.

Heck, before we know where we are, they'll be buying Hollywood movie studios and Rockefeller Center...

It makes a change from the China hysteria on which so much US newsprint is now wasted.