Hardly any research or engineering from NUS, NTU or A-STAR
research institutes in Biopolis resulted in a breakthrough product
with global sales.
If you think I am talking nonsense, please name me something
Singapore's scientists researched, commercialized and end-users
like yourself are using now. Singapore has the world class
universities which is correct. But in terms of innovation, we are
at the bottom.
Dont worry about the driverless taxi NTU is making. I fetched
the professor who was involved in it before. Research in Singapore
will provide some local head-line news in Straits Times every year.
But after a while, it becomes dead silent.
I have seen this bloody nonsense cycle for too long.
As I said earlier, you need a big country like US and China
where their researchers can test their latest research ideas on the
battlefield and/or with their huge domestic market. Singapore
simply does not have the critical mass to do such things even with
a 6.9 million population. Dont forget US is constantly involved in
Middle East wars. In order to fully develop our research expertise,
we need to help out in global conflicts, and send soldiers to fight
using our research innovations. Without this we can only speculate.
For instance, say we come up with a drug. How do we know its useful
unless we are able to find people to test on?
What more a driverless taxi? Dont worry until America starts a
working fleet. It is still a long way off.
Maybe can you 'enlighten' me who is the inventor of thumbdrive
or sound blaster?
