Some of the 404 participants of the “Next Einstein” competition held in March in Toronto, Canada. The contest set a Guinness World Record for the “largest gathering of people dressed as Albert Einstein”, according to organisers of the Einstein Legacy Project, set up to encourage innovation and free thinking. Photo: Handout via Reuters

Will technology make us or break us?

Andrew Sheng says breathtaking tech advances are making solutions to the world’s most vexing problems available to everyone, but organising for these changes remains the biggest challenge

Topic | Future tech

Andrew Sheng

Published: 10:30am, 31 Mar, 2017

Updated: 9:55am, 3 Apr, 2017

Some of the 404 participants of the “Next Einstein” competition held in March in Toronto, Canada. The contest set a Guinness World Record for the “largest gathering of people dressed as Albert Einstein”, according to organisers of the Einstein Legacy Project, set up to encourage innovation and free thinking. Photo: Handout via Reuters

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Andrew Sheng

Andrew Sheng is a former central banker and financial regulator, currently distinguished fellow at the Asia Global Institute, University of Hong Kong. He writes widely on Asian perspectives on global issues, with columns in Project Syndicate, Asia News Network and Caijing/Caixin magazines. His latest book is “Shadow Banking in China”, co-authored with Ng Chow Soon, published by Wiley.