Story 36: Galapagos

1865, Darwin traveled around the hinterland of the Pacific Ocean on Kitty Hawk and was surprised to find an archipelago. This island seems to be another world. The tortoise that should be in the water is as big as a human being, chewing berries slowly and walking on land. Lizards, which should be on land, lie lazily in the sun on the rocks and occasionally dive into the sea to prey on a few small fish. Captain fitzroy told Darwin that these islands were called Galapagos.

Darwin found that the creatures here evolved into an independent ecosystem because they were far away from the mainland. Nearly one-third of the species here are unique to the Galapagos Islands. Inspired by this archipelago, Darwin bid farewell to God and started his own evolutionary thought. In the east of the extreme road, there is also such a country, which has been drifting away from the center of civilization all the year round and exudes a unique temperament in society and economy. This country is Japan.

Can you imagine a mobile phone that exists specifically for divination?

Today, with smartphones all over the world, we can still see that many younger brothers and sisters in Japanese dramas are using flip phones. When people in China chat on WeChat or WeChat, people in Japanese dramas still communicate by email. All these have to make people lament the "Galapagos syndrome" that Japanese society suffers from.

Lao Luo once ridiculed the Japanese industry, saying that if you want to innovate, you simply feel that there is no future in going to Japan, because everything you can think of to improve the user experience there is the ultimate.

Galapagos phenomenon also appears in the automobile industry. The ugly thing above is small and exquisite, looks thin and stuffed, and its safety is extremely unreliable. So they are called little fleas in the circle of China people. The Japanese call this thing k-car, which means light car. But in Japan, the ugliest one is the one with the highest quantity, with one in every two households on average.

Ugly is ugly. You can jump up and down in Japan, which is especially suitable for Japan's narrow terrain. The space is quite large, so the first Japanese car is often this k-car.

Japan can only produce and sell in its own country, and there are many things that don't exist abroad. It is also the Galapagos Island in the world.