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Singapore In The Future

Singapore . When you mention it to any foreigner, they would all say, “ Ah, the beautiful garden city? Nice place!” From their broad smiles and positive replies, it is clear, that Singapore is indeed a picture of absolute cleanliness and safety in their head.

Yes, Singapore was once like that, but sadly, this image of our beloved home is slowly but surely tarnishing. Fine, maybe the main streets, the shopping centers, and probably all other places with slightly more human traffic are cleaner, but look at those deserted little streets and alleys. Tetra packs, cans of beer, leftover food, are all strewn there. Who will clean them up?

So, I am now asking everybody this – in the not too distant future, will there be anyone out there to stop noticing so much about ‘big’ and ‘important’ buildings and actually care more about the general picture of Singapore ?

I think many would agree with my statement. Furthermore, the future would most probably be fast cars, state-of-the-art computerized systems, big business and heavy traffic due to the rapidly increasing population of the world.

Singapore would have to conquer new places to solve our land problem (we cannot always be dependent on other countries for sand!) and to rise to the very top. Explore places never before ventured in history – the deep, blue sea and the boundless skies. Who knows? In the future, Singapore may have three components – the Land component, the Sea component, and the Air component.

Maybe technology could one day bring us the Science of Levitation hundreds of meters above the ground? The traffic would also be a major problem. Singapore ’s increasing-by-the-day population would probably need lots of cars as studies have shown that Singapore ’s population would most probably increase by three million, and this would lead Singapore to be an air- polluted place.

What can Singapore ’s cabinet do? Prevent people from buying cars? No, no. This would probably lead to riots! As such, we have to keep in touch with what’s new in the technology section.

Singapore may create cars that run on solar energy? Such cars may go much slower than your average car! Anything is possible. Right now, maybe even as your eyes are reading these words, our government is probably planning for our future. This one of the factors that makes our country one of the best – a good responsible government.

All that they are doing is all for the good of our people. I shall give you an example. The Integrated Resort in Sentosa. Of course, the project may cost a bomb (a huge bomb at that) but hey, no one’s looking at the present price. What they are looking at is the long -term results! The casino would keep the money rolling in, and all the other attractions would also contribute to our economy. What does the government do with all this cash flowing in? Why, it builds things for the better of for our nation!

Then, there is still education to deal with. The Ministry of Education has indeed learnt that youths go straight to the computer after finishing work and thus has been producing websites for educational lessons in a video game style.

However, all my friends have all complained that these educational games lack a key ingredient – fun. They all reckon that this educational-gaming movement has gone into overdrive. When would a game stop being a game and become work?

Furthermore, if the Ministry of Education were to improve this one problematic factor, would the following generation of students all be glued to the computer screen, because of the encouragement of fun educational games, however, in being so, the children of the next generations would be computer savvy, and also they would be accessible to more information than present in the textbooks.  

Furthermore, thinking environmentally, using computers would reduce the amount of paper used as most work could be all done on-line. Also, as good students are usually the future leaders of tomorrow, picture this possible scene in the future: Jon woke up just when the communications monitor started flickering. His mother’s warm smile greeted him. “Rise and shine, darling,” she greeted warmly. 

Jon rubbed his eyes and jumped out of bed. He walked into the bathroom, with an auto steam bath. He dried himself and walked down for breakfast. After a machine-cooked meal of bacon, he booted up the computer and downloaded the day’s schedule while he set up the web camera. Then, the teacher’s face appeared. “Hi, class! I have e-mailed today’s assignments to you already, please check your e-mail now… …Done?  Okay, now take out worksheet 4768, yes. Fine. Synchronize your processors, lets begin!” 

The above shows typical boy, Jon, having a class taking place at home in the distant future. However, nothing in this world is ever perfect. Would teachers be actually aware if their students were opening another window and playing games?

Anyway, you might have been wondering why I put so much effort into this ‘education’ section of my essay. It is because I am, being a student, naturally concerned about the education I would receive in my important growing years.

And last but not least, we have our formidable army. These brave troops all patrol our country twenty-four hours a day, protecting our country from terrorism. The navy, air force and land troops are who we owe our present safety to. Also not to be forgotten – the men in blue, the police force, the fire-fighters, the medics. These people help ensure that our country remains in the top forty safest countries.

entrepôt and financial trade centering on the country's strategic location. In terms of GDP per capital (Gross Domestic Products per capita), Singapore is the 18th wealthiest country in the world.

Singapore has made extremely good progress and let us wishes it all the best in the future. The future would probably be bright in Singapore , and if Singapore does keep up with the times, the future would be cutting edge technological fads and intelligent computer whizzes.