Young Asian Women have spent a long time on the outside of mainstream society looking in. That's why they are the first to break and re-make communications technologies... In the 90s it was mobile messaging. Today it's podcasting.? In today's Asia Tech Podcast, it's all about reading distant signals from outsiders. I'm joined by my Mandarin & Japanese speaking colleague Yi Jing Zhou to share insights from China and Japan that will impact the world. What you'll learn about in Episode 499 -- how Japanese high school girls showed the world how to use the mobile phone as a messenger- how young Chinese are using podcasts as a dating tool- how the rise of mobile phones in the 1999 and podcasting in the 2019 look remarkably similarDiscussed- Spotify, Stitcher, Castbox, Lizhi.fm, Pokeberu, Dengon Diaru, Anime, Whatsapp, Facebook, Karaoke, Grab, Gojek, Airasia, Tinder, Pandora