Rising Sun
by Michael Crichton · first published 1991
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Rising Sun is a 1992 novel by Michael Crichton. It was his eighth under his own name and eighteenth overall, and is about a murder in the Los Angeles headquarters of Nakamoto, a fictional Japanese corporation. The book was published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. An image of fashion model Gia Carangi is incorporated in the cover art for the original edition.
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There is a fun Michael Crichton book (and a subsequent movie) that captures the "fretting" quite well IMHO. It's called Rising Sun.
on “Who owns America? Hint: It's not China” ↗The original Rising Sun book by Michael Crichton is a good read if you didn't know about it. Haven't seen the movie.
on “Fitbit employees charged with stealing trade secrets from competitor Jawbone” ↗…behind some big shopping centres, resorts and golf courses which Australians of all colours continue to use and enjoy to this day. A good companion would be the re-reading of the Micheal Crichton novel "Rising Sun" - written at the peak of the 'Japan to take over the world' thought bubble, before the Japan bubble popped.
on “The Deal Is Simple. Australia Gets Money, China Gets Australia” ↗…schools, company hospital, servants provided for, essentially just punch the clock, pretend to do some work & go home. I wonder how the salaryman culture gels with the Japanese being so innovative. In Rising Sun (both the bad movie & worse book by same name), Michael Crichton make the claim that the Japanese are light years ahead of the US viz-a-viz computing/tech/optics/physics. There's a scene where Sean Connery…
on “Startup Culture Divide: United States and Japan” ↗In 1992, Michael Crichton's _Rising Sun_ had manipulation of security camera footage as its crucial plot device. It was painstaking, extraordinarily expensive work, reserved for covering up murder. With this and several other recent developments,…
on “Deep Angel: AI that erases objects from images” ↗For me, Crichton went off the rails with Rising Sun and Disclosure, which are mainly driven by animus against Japanese business practices and women filing sexual harassment claims. Like, if you were a rich white guy in the early 90s, those were two things…
on “Michael Crichton’s and John Grisham’s ambition types” ↗…they would be the end all be all. Of course it ended with them going into a depression much worse than even our Great Recession. Michael Crichton, who wrote “Jurassic Park”, also wrote a book called “Rising Sun” right before that about just this topic. In that book, the velociraptors were the ninja workers you describe.
on “The rise of robots in the German labour market” ↗…trying to find a truth that's inconvienent to the airline (that the pilot was to blame.) It could have been about aircraft engineers or aerospace scientists fucking up... but it wasn't. Disclosure and Rising Sun are controversial for their own reasons, but both have prominent anti-corporate themes. Then there are the novels that seem unrelated to the discussion at all, like Eaters of the Dead which was a retelling…
on “Michael Crichton: Why Speculate? (2005)” ↗…might and wise long-term business sense. Steve Jobs looked up to Sony. Gibson set Neuromancer’s opening scene in Chiba. The anxiety is incredibly overt in movies like Gung Ho and books like Crichton’s Rising Sun. Now they will have headaches for months because Internet Explorer is sunsetting. I don’t intend to be mean, but I find the perspective interesting. Especially as new anxieties grow about China’s perceived…
on “Internet Explorer shutdown to cause Japan headaches 'for months'” ↗Basically, they crashed and burned. This book and movie captures the paranoia that many Americans felt about Japan at that time. http://www.amazon.com/Rising-Sun-Michael-Crichton/dp/0099233...
on “Investors Are in Denial About China” ↗The fear of Japan was also fossilized in the classic Crichton novel Rising Sun (1992, made a movie the year later). But it quickly became aged, as that was right at the tail of the mania.
on “True Story of the 1980s, When Everyone Was Convinced Japan Would Buy America” ↗Michael Crichton gets a bit overzealous with Japan paranaoia in his 1992 novel, Rising Sun
on “True Story of the 1980s, When Everyone Was Convinced Japan Would Buy America” ↗That was the plot of Rising Sun by Machael Crichton and was published in 1992. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rising_Sun_(novel) The only thing you'd need to change in that novel is substitute China for Japan
on “Real Time Person Removal from Complex Video” ↗…outmaneuvering us with long-term planning while we only pay attention to the immediate future" is common, but historically these predictions have never panned out. Go back and read Michael Crichton's Rising Sun sometime, he goes on and on for pages with arguments totally isomorphic to yours: Japan is going to take over the world because of their crafty long-term planning and investment, etc. It was published…
on “Japan to fund firms to shift production out of China” ↗In the 1980s, Japan was painted as a threat. "Economic Pearl Harbor", Japanese developers snapping up US real estate, Crichton's "Rising Sun", etc. Then the Japanese bubble economy burst and new bogeymen (terrorists, China, etc) took center stage, and now the popular image of Japan is blue-haired anime girls squealing "kawaii!".
on “2021 Letter” ↗