They say a life without a dream is not worth living.
In 1991, Malaysia’s then Prime Minister, Tun Dr Mahathir offered a bold aspiration to the country:
Artificial Intelligence: AI release Hopefully, the Malaysian who is born today and in the years to come will be the last generation of our citizens who will be living in a country that is called ‘developing’. The ultimate objective that we should aim for is a Malaysia that is a fully developed country by the year 2020.
That ‘Vision 2020′, as it came to be called, aspires for Malaysia to be a united nation and is intended to be a major step toward establishing a scientific and progressive society, a society that is innovative and forward-looking, one that is not only a consumer of technology but also a contributor to the scientific and technological civilization of the future.
Some say that it is pure dream. But then, we had a dream and dreams make life worth living.
That dream inspired many other dreams including mine.
The question is… do we still have the dream? Or have the fire fizzled and we continue on with our mundane life – treading on reality.
Year 2020 is not such a distant period anymore. The new millenium came and passed by a good 7 years ago.
When our next generation time come – are we still living in a developing country that is still chasing its ‘developed society’ dream. Or will they be living in a developed country? Actually, both are not too bad because worse of all if at that time they live in a country that couldn’t care less. ‘Tak apa lah’.
Me..I still keep my dream and living a dream. What’s your dream?
Ash is not paranoia. It is just that his keen sense of observation makes him see patterns that others fail to see.
My dream would be related alittle sci-fi, we need alien technology to resolves some issues though., hehe, talking about travelling at outer space, or etc.., thats my vision.., lets clall it 5050, which i had already extinct at that time., lol..
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The Vision 2020 is just the very first stage on what we achieved at that tiume, dare to dream, dare to achieve, no??
Besides, we can’t live without dream or vision don’t we.. No matter what you call it, short term or long term, aim or goal, it’s something we wants to achieves for our life.
As for our country, we are certainly not the best for achieving such goal, but, as long as we are following the right path, it can be done, maybe we will take alittle longer, but who knows one day, suddently we have our very own ‘Enstein’ ..??