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the cost of monoculture - Gen Kanai weblog
This is just a sample of the content found on this website. Please visit the website to read the entire page. "Gen Kanai weblog the cost of monoculture By Gen Kanai on January 26, 2007 12:53 AM Permalink Comments (75) (I am still preparing for posts on my China trip, but I wanted to first address the issue of monoculture as it is very relevant now.) What would you say if I told you that there was a nation that was at the forefront of technology, an early adopter of ecommerce, leading the world in 3G mobile adoption, in wireless broadband, in wired broadband adoption, as well as in citizen-driven media. Sounds like an amazing place, right? Technology utopia? Wrong. This nation is also a unique monoculture where 99.9% of all the computer users are on Microsoft Windows. This nation is a place where Apple Macintosh users cannot bank online, make any purchases online, or interact with any of the nation's e-government sites online. In fact, Linux users, Mozilla Firefox users and Opera users are also banned from any of these types of transactions because all encrypted communications online in this nation must be done with Active X controls. Where is this nation? South Korea. UPDATE: photo of Korean Hangul keyword search visualization seen at Naver's lobby. I traveled to South Korea last fall to learn more about the South Korean Internet market and came away disappointed and frankly stunned. I met with leading businesses in the search market, the music download market, the games market and all reported the same situation- a monoculture of users using MS Windows. The S. Korean market is in a unique situation where decisions made long ago have created a consumer monoculture which is having unintended repercussions that are affecting anyone with a computer in South Korea. It is a fas" .... read entire page
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