When the internet went mainstream in the early 1990s, it was widely touted as a technology that would change the world. That was not hype, although some early commentators thought it was, even deriding it as a passing fad.
BANGKOK - Vientiane is hardly a noisy city on any given day, but a recent development is helping to keep the decibels down. More ride-hailing service drivers in the Laotian capital are using quiet electric vehicles, relying on the country’s plentiful hydropower rather than more expensive imported petrol.
As AI creeps into every facet of daily life, its deployment and development have raised new issues for policymakers to consider. These include how copyright and data protection laws apply to web scraping. The opacity of platform algorithms assigning jobs to gig workers or setting prices for consumers is another brewing problem.
As at Jan 23, 700,000 residents have enrolled in Healthier SG, and for most Singaporean patients, the cost of medications for chronic conditions at their enrolled GP clinics is covered by the Community Health Assist Scheme, or Chas.
A social media influencer once lamented how some of the beautiful wonders of nature would no longer be around unless the world learns to protect the environment. Yet she travels with a zeal and purchases two economy seats for each of her children when they fly, contributing far more carbon emissions than the average Singaporean. This same influencer said that more pressure should be put on the aviation industry to develop innovative, sustainable solutions to the carbon emissions problem.
I wonder how Americans of a certain vintage explain 1968 to their grandchildren. “Well, kid, we had an assassination of a public figure. Then another. No, not those two. Those were gunned down earlier in the decade. Also, a segregationist won five states in the presidential election. Riots happened from which some cities never recovered. The Democrats held a convention in which the police rioted.