about to go to Tokyo for work!

Feb 2015: a young man of Jewish extraction hops across the ocean with his German coworkers to meet up with their Japanese coworkers, in Tokyo. They will discuss various planned improvements to a computer program capable of translating between every single human language that has more than 100 million speakers.

His pocket supercomputer will immediately allow him to stay in contact with his friends and family, with no particular prior arrangements.

... this is an OK future, in a lot of ways.