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Lol I appreciate your comment about the Japanese ninja-workers. Reading business books from the 90’s, it is astounding how many people feared the Japanese and thought 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.

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"Rising Sun" was made into a movie.[1] It has some of the early MIT Leg Lab robots in it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rising_Sun_(film)

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Oh man forget about these / that movie! As another aside, current really David Halberstam’s “The Next Century”, published in 1991, and his main focus in the book, after Eastern Europe, is Japan. All of this is laughable now (though some say Japan will be a superpower due to the military it’s built up to counter North Korea after NK falls), but makes you wonder, what threat do we all believe in now that will really turn out to be a paper tiger in the years ahead?

EDIT: quote from the book...”the Cold War is over, the Japanese won”