The control centre of the Shinkansen, the world’s first high-speed railway, is surprisingly low-tech.
On the wall, the display of the line is distinctly 20th century rather than 21st, with no colour and little detail. Even the computer screens look as if they are just one generation ahead of Amstrad.
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