- Vietnam big investments on Financial Center and transportation (Bac Nam high speed railway) – funding and ROI
- Openness of financial products to retails via investment platforms – derivatives, cross-assets, digital assets. Global and in Singapore.
- Vietnam – Digital transformation in government, banking, education – VNeID: taxation, convenience, control
- Job markets: mid class white collar replaced by AI or the reality check?
- Value of blue collar and human interaction increased – pushed by aging population and reverse age pyramid.
- AI applications to go more mainstream to generate values: education , banking , healthcare, drugs, insurance
- AI pushed into physical world beyond generative text and images – driving and droids
- The push back for authenticity – experience and process instead of pure results.
- Competitiveness of Singapore in global market – finance, services, tourism – is put to test.
- Push back from parents and social to protect young generations from attention-driven and virtual economies
- Fresher ideas for physical interactions, nutrition, drugs as part of healthy lifestyles
- Brace for the real impacts – tariffs, wars, US and China-Russia (watched by Europe) to the trades and cost of living.
- The game of leverages for nationalism: water, rare earth materials, energy. Or finding the paths to be more independent.
- Are we getting more lonely? – polarised, comfortably disconnected, loosely bounded to a community → The economy of loneliness and anti-loneliness.
(*) – image is genenerated by ChatGPT based on my writing 🙂