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| | Metropolis - Tokyo Feature Stories: Tokyo Tomorrow |
 | | For Suzuki, young girls - he employs the term kogyaru - have best utilized text messaging and mobile online information, manipulating their phones into a portable bedroom, a compact mirror that is the seed of a new consumer, residential and community culture. |
 | | Cyber soothsayer William Gibson agrees that, as the vehicle for a new telecommunications culture, the kogyaru is the symbol of postmodern Tokyo. |
 | | Content is not the issue here, but rather the speed, the weird unconscious surety, with which the schoolgirls of Tokyo took up a secondary feature (text messaging) of a new version of the cellular telephone, and generated, almost overnight, a micro-culture." |
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