AI or Brand New Foreigners running Singapore? Local elites becoming less competent, less competitive for future challenges.

AI or Brand New Foreigners running Singapore?

Local elites becoming less competent, less competitive for future challenges.

They are running out of ideas, irrelevant to future Singapore.  True or not true?

I was at the library’s Singapore Collection the other day, going through books about Lee Kuan Yew, Goh Keng Swee and books written by George Yeo, Tommy Koh, Ho Kwon Ping, Kishore Mahbubani etc. 

These are local thinkers or elites of the past or immediate past. 

I suddenly had a question.  How relevant are these books related to future Singapore?  What can these old stories and experiences bring us to another height?  I wonder.

Then I think and many Singaporeans too agree. We call ourselves Singapore Inc and we run our country like a corporation.  So what is the problem with AI or foreign professionals if they can solve Singapore’s future problems? 

Singaporeans have very short memories.  Old stories and experiences can be very irrelevant to young and future Singaporeans.  From languages, religions, culture, customs, to life-style, we experience big transformations, emphasising getting rich quick, fast response and fast answer.     

Maybe AI can do a better job than the 4G or 5G leaders.  AI does better calculations, efficient and effective strategies.  

Maybe the professional brand new foreign talents can do a better job than the PAP government.  They are performance based and are paid according to outcome and output.  If not satisfied, just replace them.

AI and foreign professionals can run Singapore without fear and favour. They have no emotion and are heartless in execution.   

We don’t have to worry about housing them in the black and white bungalows.  We don’t have to consider whether their pay is high or low, we pay them international compensation.  We don’t care whether the AI or foreign professionals are Chinese or not. 

What do the political parties do? They are Board members.  The more votes you have, the more members you are entitled.  We don’t have to worry about whether the President is elected or not too.  We don’t care whether the presidential election is restricted to a particular race or not. 

Future Singapore is very different from Forward Singapore which you can read about at the Singapore Collection and the mainstream media.

It is not enough! 

Our future depends on AI and foreigners.  Maybe one day, they are smart enough to replace the local elites and the PAP.