S1E3: Fork Fashions and Toilet Trends

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Society & Culture, Technology, History

4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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It took a long time for the fork to go from weird curiosity to ubiquitous tool. How long will it take for current technologies -- like the Japanese-style bidet toilet, or heads-up displays such as Google Glass -- to go from oddities to everyday necessities? Guests include: Astro Teller, Google’s Captain of Moonshots; Margaret Visser, author of The Rituals of Dinner. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.4	Tom, I lived in Japan for a little while.
0:33.4	And one of the things that I came to love about Japan was the toilets.
0:38.1	Yeah, these amazing toilets.
0:39.9	Do you know what I'm talking about?
0:40.7	You've ever been to Japan?
0:41.3	You've ever tried one of these toilets?
0:42.4	I have been a few times, and I have seen these toilets, and I always thought they were a bit weird.
0:47.4	Okay.
0:48.0	They're not weird.
0:49.1	They're amazing.
0:50.0	And I'll tell you why.
0:51.4	For one thing, they have heated seats. If you've ever in winter sat on a cold toilet seat, you know it on Taipei. It's a nightmare. These have heated seats. You sit down and, ah, delightful. But more than that, they shoot a stream of warm water at your nether regions. And it, like, oscillates across your nether regions, and it cleans them off. And to me, it's a far superior technology.
1:11.9	Yeah, well, when I'm in Japan and I see all these weird buttons that can kind of shoot things
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