An intercontinental trip a year keeps the psychiatrist away

By Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

July 2015 EDITORIAL
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We take global communication as a matter of course today. Not long ago, messages had to be written on physical media to arrive only after being carried across oceans and mountains. Since then, we have seen the telegram come and go. Now, with the Internet and the smart phone, we receive endless news and personal texts as if time and space do not matter.We even wake up to applications waiting to tell us what we missed while we were asleep.What...

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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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