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In the words of Michio Kaku, what does science say about the possibility of parallel universe similar to yours’? About antimatter universe, mirror universes, time-reversed universes?

On that note, I’d like to add an example as to show the directions as to how the evolution of Social {Micro} blogging or communication will change because the number one factor in communication is to convey the message, and as much as the Web itself is contained, the browsing experience have not really transformed over the past fifteen years. Browsers as a platform need to evolve into modules, into widgets that provoke compact-precision rather than inculcating a standard way of working either online in a SoHo environement, or diving into the waters of Pulau Redang — developers and product engineers need to work in tandem to innovate. A fresh uniqueness for the 21st century must be introduced otherwise we become complacent, and in the 21st century there is no place for design complacencies. The technology is there, but we do not have… say an ‘over-the-air’ collective social platform in a proprietary gadget like a five microns thick plasma using high grade strontium aluminate phosphorescent pigments when painted over a surface can be made use to reduce emissions when operating in the dark night, with energy from the Sun or say, a hardware as big as your Tag Heuer timepiece – small enough and legible device at a flick of a button — a Fresnel lens gets into place for perfect communication exchanges. What about creating a sensor-based biochip which when introduced into a cell, allow for both identification and communicative purposes?

Science fiction is now an illusory non-fiction. As we are more awaken to the holographic reality, we have to realize that our singularity and the objectives of living in the 21st century is not-to-not get involved. Despite the fact that we are not only not getting involved we are allowing our nation to lull into creative complacency as it is, there are not many IP innovations out there which, apart from foreign-based innovations were created previously in the last century.

We should be able to foresee at least a hundred years from today where social networking, or twittering becomes a thing of the past, where being social virtually meant meeting in real-time and simultaneously communicating or collaborating in a grid mesh via nano-fibers or even micro hardware gadgets, or innovative designs that provoke the ideas of a futuristic past when the World was first introduced to the descent of highly evolved intelligent beings — putting it mildly, hardware and accessories need to also evolve. Where the common most overlooked typewriter turned into word-processors, and now, Notebooks, and Laptops should have already evolved beyond the twenty-year timeline, but we’re still hugging to the past.

We have great minds in Malaysia, but we do not see that translated into innovative intellectual property-designs, which can benefit if not humanity, but Malaysians on a larger scale uniting both rural and urban sectors.

We need to do more, for time is of the essence.

Of course there are pretext when it comes to innovation and why stagnancity is discouraged – governments, corporations, and tech-NGOs need to look at how research and development especially so in this era can be very much exploited to a degree. With the idea of superstring and quantum theories, it seems our mindset are still stuck in the 19th century. We debate, talk, cry foul, fight and maim, and destroy yet we have not come up with sustainable innovations — Sustainable intellectual properties that can encourage the nation to become stronger, and independent of others economically, and secured.

Billions of Ringgit Malaysia is being spent on infrastructure alone in the country yet not One billion Ringgit Malaysia or more is being spent to initiate an R & D incubator or programme starting off at the lowest level of educational infrastructure, appreciating an innovative culture. The number of unemployed graduates alone, in the mid-level can help the nation evolve to the next step. Think what MOSTI can do if a substantial allocation from the Government is offered to every individual in the country to encourage them to create, and where seed-programmes initiated to instigate development. We need to encourage not only the idea of innovation but also the practise of innovations beyond agro & biotechnology. There are different facets to technology out there, and by concentrating only on two or at best three; we limit our playground to just the sandpit.

We have to be able to measure how and when innovation occurs in different sectors and how that can impact first, the Malaysian economy, the regional and global economy, and how it is when diffused across the economy, and how it affects economic growth. We have to be able to foresee fifty years at least in the future how with the knowledge that we have shared or unshared collectively, can be input into ameliorating the economies that drive our Nation.

The Malaysian Government could create stronger frameworks of identifying and measuring innovation; leverage existing inventions to allow for consistent estimation of the contributions in GDP, and productivity to develop greater understanding of innovation; increase access to data in order to facilitate more robust innovation search; convene workships or forums to discuss drivers, impediments and enablers; participate in International dialogue related to measuring and analyzing effective innovation ensuring that efforts are internationally compatible at the larger extent; consider development of an innovation index where more opportunities will be created, when it has both data collection and analysis of innovative drivers; and support necessary fundings to implement these as a collective endeavor for the future of humanity. All three sectors {MOSTI, Corporations, and Tech-NGOs} can partake in the measurement exercise, not forgetting the implementation and encouraging the populace to get involved. This on its own will encourage entrepreneurial activities, both in start-ups and in existing large-scale companies, or individuals critical to the nation’s success.

Every innovator is a party to innovation – in fact, entrepreneurs should be to the economy, as the RMAF is to MINDEF. To make the economy more congenial to innovation is to construct an economic culture that appreciates what innovators do irrespective whether they’re technocrats, entrepreneurs, senior citizens or graduates.

Take and study the consideration as to how Japan infused innovativeness as early as the Tokugawa era and that was as early as 1603. Contemporary Japan now faces a stagnancity, not because of the recent institutional crisis yet they challenge themselves to excel in quanta-nanotechnologies.

In a global, knowledge-driven economy, a collective undertaking should be implemented for Malaysians irrespective their backgrounds, and social class. A radically new system for creating wealth has evolved that depends upon the creation and application of new knowledge. We are shifting from an emphasis on creating and transporting physical objects such as materials and energy to knowledge itself; from atoms to bits; from societies based upon the geopolitics of the nation-state to those based on diverse cultures and local traditions; and from a dependence on government policy to an increasing confidence in the marketplace to establish public priorities.

As Malaysians, we are capable of approaching innovative development whilst meeting the challenges of the future. MOSTI needs to implement programmes, and incubators to encourage, granting each resident their rightful purpose of being, Malaysian.

Relevant

In the 21st century, the US advocated the adoption of a more contemporary research model, bringing together the best of world-class university research and industrial R&D with critical government support in a phased approach that yields the best outcome for all three sectors and drives a healthy pipeline of innovative American products and services to the global market well into the new century.

Innovation is not an abstraction. Nor is it an end itself. It is how we make a better Australia, and contribute to making a better world — a prosperous, fair and decent world, in which everyone has the chance of a fulfilling life. The Commonwealth science and innovation budget increased from $6.56 billion in 2007–08 to $6.88 billion in 2008–09 — a rise of 5 per cent. The Government is now providing a significant boost in the 2009–10 Budget, which includes $8.58 billion for science and innovation. This is 25 per cent more than in 2008–09. This direct investment in Australian innovation is supported by investments in infrastructure to sustain the innovation process.

As Schumpeter suggested, entrepreneurs require new economic spaces for further innovation to occur. If Japan were to reorganize its prefecture system by amalgamating the geographically smaller prefectural regions into larger regional autonomies, or federal “states” – of which ten are planned, and move regulatory authority from the central ministries to these newly-formed regional autonomies, this would create new economic spaces for entrepreneurs. Moreover, 60% {US$ 3 trillion} of Japan’s GDP is generated by private consumption. Given that total manufacturing output is a mere 22 percent, it becomes clear that invigorating private consumption offers a potentially more effective route to sustainable economic growth. The growth of the Japanese economy, however, has been dependent on centralized control and leadership for the last century, which has caused the regional economies to forfeit momentum and creativity. In other words, Japanese entrepreneurs are being thwarted in their efforts to pioneer new frontiers in Japan. Believing that the introduction of the decentralized “Do-Shu-Sei” system will provide a vital economic space for entrepreneurs.

In his latest book, international business futurist, James Canton takes readers on a dizzying ride through hundreds of technological, governmental, medical, environmental, and economic trends that will, in Canton’s view, reshape the world over the course of the next 20 years. Roughly half of the world population, some 3 billion people, is under the age of 25, and approximately a quarter of the world youth population subsists on less than a dollar a day. By 2025, two out of every three people on the planet will live in a water-stressed area, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, eastern Asia, and southeastern Asia. At the same time, technological innovation and globalization will result in more than a billion millionaires by 2025. Breakthroughs in genomics and stem-cell therapies will extend the human lifespan in the West beyond 150 years, creating new problems. These and hundreds of other facts, figures, forecasts, and predications are part of what Canton calls “The Extreme Future”.