It’s easier for Japan to envision the future because it is living there already.

This is pretty ingenious. While all other bids focused on building extravagant stadiums and fancy infrastructure, Japan’s bid focused on transforming the very experience of watching sports (and this applies to not just football).

The bid “involved projecting 3D holograms of the games live onto soccer football fields around the world, allowing folks that can’t make it to Japan for the actual games to get a pretty great simulacrum, while standing next to people that look like them and are probably rooting for the same team. “I have to admit that the idea of this blows my mind away,” said Japan’s committee chief Kohzo Tashima.”

From Paul Miller’s World disappoints once again.