Japan is promising the future, quite literally, in its bid to secure hosting the 2022 World Cup. Now, when I say the future I don’t mean realistic future, I mean sci-fi level future, complete with real time universal audio translation, ubiquitous augmented reality devices for everyone and perhaps the most monumental of all, outfitting over 400 stadiums around the world with special LCD screens that would allow for holographic broadcasts of all matches.

They even made an outlandish promotional video depicting what can only be described as a football-based world utopia in which old English men become live-long friends of little Japanese and French kids and creepy Italian men flirt with holographic samba dancers from Brazil. Sure, this is a bid for an event that’s over a decade away and the world will be a different place by then but this still seems a bit too much. Do you believe Japan is capable of delivering this in 10 years or are they shooting themselves in the foot?

[Japan Probe]