I met Daisuke “Dice-K” Enomoto in Star City, Russia, in August 2006. Enomoto, 37, is slight with tired eyes and a shock of bleach-blond dyed hair. His idea of space travel comes from comic books and Star Wars. He grew up as a self-described otaku, coding his own computer games and dreaming of space—or, at least, space as it was portrayed in Star Wars and manga. His favorite anime show, Gundam, chronicles a future full of giant robots in which humans are abandoning this planet for the stars. “People who live on Earth, their souls is tied up by gravity, you understand?” Enomoto says. “I sympathize with this idea. Maybe in the future people should live in the space.”
Enomoto applied his programming skills to building Internet companies, making millions. He bought a swanky wraparound penthouse loft overlooking Tokyo’s famous electronics district, Akihabara. He tooled around in Porsches and Segways, and […]
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