‘The world has gone mad and the system is broken’. Ray Dalio, founder of the world’s largest hedge fund Bridgewater, once wrote in his late-2019 blog post. Just how mad have we gone? With the continued growth of global GDP, our rational minds tell us that capitalism is a good thing. Yet, somehow it doesn’t [...]
Utopia, Applied
We are now a year into the Covid-19 triggered nation-wide lockdowns in Singapore and around the world. Apart from the health crisis, the focus is also shifting onto the growing debt crisis of nations that borrowed to stay afloat in the pandemic. Poverty, inequalities and divisiveness are surging and there is no clarity on actionable [...]
Interview: G20 co-founder Hans Eichel
“If you want peace, then prepare for peace” Hans Eichel, while chairing the G7, started the G20 with then US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers to reflect the rebalancing of global power. As Germany’s finance minister during its landmark ruling coalition between the Social Democrats and the Green Party, Hans architected the fiscal reforms that turned [...]
Prototypical: Dream Stage
Prototypical kicks off with Dream Stage where participants work with like-minded innovators to polish their ideas guided by industry experts.
Daily Summaries of Moonshot: Permacolony Bootcamp
We had the honour of having Andreas Raptopoulos of Matternet bestow some wisdom on being a people-founder, and Lynette Tan of ESG to shed some light on grants available for launching a startup from Singapore.
[Updates] DeMineCraft 1.0
DeMineCraft (DMC) Worlds was built to be an open innovation ecosystem focused on digital twin-based games with real world impact. The original notion behind DMC involves intertwining two different concepts: robotics and gamification into one big idea - a robot deminer controlled by gamers. In order to pilot-trial the concept, we narrowed our scope to [...]
[Updates] Thoughts on DeMineCraft
A short post reflecting the past, present, and envisioned future for DeMineCraft (DMC).
[Updates] Harvester Robotics Phase 1 Idea Development
We recently wrapped up the first phase of DeMineCraft (DMC) World project at our 3rd virtual open house. In this phase of the project, the focus was to build the first prototype of a sweet potato harvester robot.
[E] Virtual Open House #2 – Recap!
A new vidcast series with Atsushi Taira, an update on AudaCities: Humanity Design Summit, and Moonshot: Permacolony - a global challenge for innovators.
[E] #EnterTheNewNormal – Virtual Open City Series 01
Virtual Open City was an adaptation of our monthly open houses to keep the conversation flowing on the future of living, food, work and manufacturing. Typically, we would expect about 30 people streaming in at various times over at our physical playground in the far west of Singapore. After receiving over 270 people tuning in [...]