Graphic: The Straits Times

• Singapore is at the forefront of an technological revolution with the Smart Nation launch as announced by PM Lee Hsien Loong last November
• IDA followed up with concrete pilot plans such as HetNet in Jurong and driverless vehicles in Sentosa in April this year
• Local telcos would benefit from higher mobile usage as Smart Nation gains traction and firms produce new products to facilitate this transformation
• We can ride on this financially by investing in companies that progress with the growth of Smart Nation

The best investment decisions sometimes come from riding the next big change in society. An example was the computer revolution in the 1970s and the birth of Internet. On hindsight, if you have spotted the potential of Microsoft when it first listed in April 1986, you could have got in at $0.11 a share. Today Microsoft is at $47 and this ......