How to Save a Life

If I got a motorcycle, would you be singing this?




Here's an excerpt from a speech by Dr. Tony Tan; I think it's a good vision for the academia here.

For the Singapore Universities to progress to the next level, they have to
evolve beyond their traditional function of knowledge dissemination, training
and education to become world-class research intensive institutions.

Universities have to serve as the powerhouses of knowledge creation as well as
facilitate the efficient diffusion of the created knowledge for the benefit of the
economy and society.

Only when these new discoveries and technologies leave the realm of academia
and into the society and economy, in the form of products and services, will
their impact be felt.