Why Meet the 21st century with 20th century Mindsets?

By Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

March 2018 EDITORIAL
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Why Meet the 21st century with 20th century Mindsets?We should not forget that in the days before social media and news websites, the flow of information – basically through schools and through daily newspapers, television and radio stations – was highly centralised and easily controlled.Then came the 1990s, and the internet took over our lives in a big way, and with it a blogging culture began to flourish. For Malaysia, it coincided with the disastrous 1997-98 Asian Financial Crisis.This democratisation...

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Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

is the Executive Director of Penang Institute. His latest book is Signals in the Noise: Notes on Penang, Malaysia and the World (Singapore: Faction Press) Homepage: wikibeng.com.

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