Futurist IDA

Singapore National Broadband Network

Several weeks ago, Dr Lee Boon Yang, Minister for Information, Communications And The Arts, announced the launch of the RFP National Broadband Network (NBN) project for Singapore. The NBN project comes with a carrot of S$750m is a passive optical network fiber to the home (FTTH) that “will offer pervasive and competitively priced ultra high-speed […]

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Random Musing

Google will change this industry forever

via C|Net Here’s the scenario: Google scoops up the 700MHz spectrum and works on it for (as most experts claim) about the next five years. During that time, the company continues to promote Android and bring more cell phone companies on board. Next, the company will secretly tell the manufacturers that it’s working on a […]

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Random Musing

Journal of Economic Psychology : “I think I can, I think I can”: Overconfidence and entrepreneurial behavior

High failure rates and low average returns suggest that too many people may be entering markets as entrepreneurs. Thus, anticipating how one will perform in the market is a fundamental component of the decision to start a business. Using a large sample obtained from population surveys conducted in 18 countries, we study what variables are […]

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Travel

My Cab Driver in Bay Area

Meng Weng reminded me to share this story on my blog. I arrived in SFO on Sunday and took a cab to downtown San Francisco. I have a very jovial cab driver and we have a wonderful conversation. Started innocently with “hows your day”, we slowly move to weather and what do I do for […]

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