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is a child of the media for whom information is not a disposable article but rather a fetish product.

Otaku are children of the media. To them, information is much more than a disposable article. Information is a fetish product.

is a passionate obsessives and the connoisseur in the information society whose collecteed knowledge is not longer oriented toward concrete objects, but rather to data.

The science fiction writer William Gibson even refers to these young people kindly as ‘passionate obsessives’. To him, an Otaku symbolizes the connoisseur in the information society. With one difference: their collect4ed knowledge is not longer oriented toward concrete objects, but rather to data.

is a word dating to n the late 1970s and early 1980s, when anime and manga fans in Japan were first meeting one another at domestic conventions, they began to recognize one another's faces, though they did not know each other by name. By way of greeting, they said, “ota-ku,” roughly meaning “hey, you,”

The oft-repeated story of the origins of the word “otaku” goes like this: In the late 1970s and early 1980s, when anime and manga fans in Japan were first meeting one another at domestic conventions, they began to recognize one another's faces, though they did not know each other by name. By way of greeting, they said, “ota-ku,” roughly meaning “hey, you,” though with the more formal, less casual intimations of the French second-person address, “vous.” In American English, it might be more like,“Hello there, sir.”

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