Super Galapagos

In a world driven mad by tech disruption, Japan’s having fallen behind is a superpower

Galapagos is, of course, an archipelago off the coast of Ecuador, named for the giant turtles that are its most famous residents. It is famed for its remoteness and for how the wildlife evolved to match the peculiarities of that local environment. But it has another meaning in Japan. Engineer and “open source guy” Shuji Sado jokingly started calling Ja…