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- January, 1969, AT&T advertisement
in The National Geographic magazine.
- Japan Inc. gets ready to roll
. . .
"Could you tell us, Mr. Isomura, what
you like best about the States?"
'The inventiveness of your people, instant
coffee, and your telephone system.'
"We asked Mr. K. Isomura, president
of Panasonic, Matsushita Electric Corporation of America, about
his first impressions of this country:
'It has been four years, but I can still
remember to my amazement the first day I arrived in your country
to find, at my company's reception desk, only one girl handling
almost 150 telephone lies. And now, as I understand it, besides
voice, your telephone system is being used to carry computer
and other information around the country. You Americans do not
realize how advanced your telephone technology is.'
'In most countries, a phone is just a phone.
Over our telephone network, people talk, machines talk, pictures
go back and forth. Anything goes -- instantly -- anywhere, anytime"