that is roland busch.ed that tech spending in asia pacific will grow almost 6% this year, to hit over $730 billion. and most of that won't be coming from developed economies like japan, but from places like southeast asia. earlier, i spoke with principal analyst lesleyjoseph and he explained why. so asia is between the new and the old at this point, but there are several nuances, so i thought i would illustrate this with three stories. the first is, if you think about developing asia like indonesia, it particularly offers a very apt metaphor for this inherent tension between developing asia, growth and legacy and future and past. the capitaljakarta, for example, incredible place, it has a young, digitally native population, bursting at the seams with digital adoption. there is also a healthy venture capitalism ecosystem and significant tech talent. all of this is happening while the city itself is sinking into the java sea, due to uncontrolled ground water use and global warming. the second story is japan.