Innovation from a previous age

Was at this conference about start-ups and alternative energy. There were 5 men seating as panelists and a crowd of people with money in their eyes, all trying to catch ways to earn money and strike it rich youtube-style, you know, the kind where eventually you hope to see your company to google and earn billions.

Which is...

I won't be judgemental this time, but let me just say that, well, this kind of conferences, discussions, and all... they seem rather, old, like we're still stuck in the previous generation of talking about enterprises and start-ups. The dot-com boom was like, ten years ago, and I would like to believe that we have moved on since.

I don't think its possible to discuss 'alternative energy' by itself, and even when you're thinking about bio-diesel (which has its own conceptual problems) or solar power, I think that all the same, we're still in this stupid mindset. I think that in reality there is really a really large issue and where opportunities are really all just there. It's whether we are capable of this imagination to actually see these opportunities. The field I'm talking about is sustainability, building bright green cities and all. How do you turn Singapore green? How do you implement things like cradle to cradle concepts - everything from alternate energy to matierials recycling, and reusing them for top-quality products - how do you design pollutant-free products - all of these, will become vital for the future, yet there is scarcely anyone in Singapore looking at them. And I think, this is a tragedy...

Oh, and something from yesterday... the thought of chronicling Singapore's green spaces and and cool buildings, and then further on to see how Singapore could develop to become a sustainable Bright Green City that is able to minimize its impact on the environment as well as letting people feel more satisfied about the environment...

It's going to take more than bio-diesel to change our consumption...

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