I promise this is worth a read.
"Deep" engineering doesn't exist in Singapore, says Motochan, particularly in the context of new business formation. Ok, accepted, I guess.
And the solution?
Centralized and concerted effort with direct and appropriate KPIs needs to be adopted with regards to innovation and value-creation, across all government agencies. [...] Our kids need to feel passionate about IT and its explosive ability to create value, from zero to hero in a few years [...] Bring the fun back into engineering among our youth, and pull out all stops to attract the brightest engineers abroad, and we might just have a fighting chance at ‘genetically-engineering’ the birth of ‘deep’ engineering on our shores. Of course, we always have the alternative, which is to keel over and stop trying. But that would be very unbecoming of the Singapore Government, wouldn’t it? :)
You may begin crying now. Or laughing. Or both simultaneously.
