Science & Tech Quote by Glenn Danzig

Danzig isn’t marveling at Japan so much as using it as a pressure valve for late-20th-century American anxiety: the future is arriving, and it’s arriving somewhere else first. The exclamation points do the real work here. This is a musician, not a policy wonk, reacting in real time to a technological flex - cars as rolling media pods - and translating it into the language of awe and mild dread. “Right now” and “already” land like accusations. The present tense becomes a cudgel: if Japan has it, why don’t we?

The intent is hype, but the subtext is displacement. Danzig’s persona is built on a kind of gothic absolutism, yet here he’s momentarily seduced by the shiny, consumer-facing apocalypse of screens everywhere. The “everything!” is telling: not a careful inventory of features, but the feeling of totality - information as ambient wallpaper. When he says “punch up traffic routes,” it’s tactile and slightly violent; technology is something you jab at to make the world reconfigure itself.

Context matters: this is a pre-smartphone prophecy, back when “Internet access” still sounded like a portal, not a utility. Japan functioned as the era’s shorthand for near-future living, a mythic proving ground for gadgets that made America feel both provincial and overwhelmed. “Crazy” is the thesis: not progress, not convenience, but acceleration so fast it blurs into spectacle.