Generation X Man - Translating Chinese and Japanese into English

My main objective is to bring parts of the Chinese and Japanese speaking worlds - otherwise unavailable - into the English speaking one. My niche is technical translations. My day job is power electronics design for electric tractors and construction equipment such as front loaders.

My primary platform is http://twitter.com/ChineseJapanese

I find that some of my audience is what I originally targeted, but by far the majority are not native English speakers. Probably the largest category would be foreigners who like to read English.

If I dream a bit, I can see myself working on machine translation. I could see automatic translator handsets like Star Trek's Universal Translator running in the near future. Technologically, the raw computing power is here today, so there will be many opportunities to contribute.

• http://www.popsci.com/watch-how-this-earpiece-will-prevent-you-from-ever-being-lost-in-translation-again-0
• http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3592753/Don-t-panic-250-Babelfish-like-gadget-fits-inside-ear-translate-foreign-languages-real-time.html

The other work I could picture is translating more engineering documents. I have translated documents such as peer reviewed papers published in the Journal of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan, and I once translated a user manual for a gas fired electricity power plant. 

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As to my personal life, the succinct explanation is the following. Put it this way: when I read about Generation X as described by  Strauss and Howe, it is like reading my personal biography to a T.