efficient. safe. protected. controlled. a utopian city-state run like a multinational company. welcome to singapore incorporated. this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder shchlt ah la la la la sha la la la singapore. one could be forgiven for thinking it s a giant, ultramodern shopping mall. an interconnected, fully wired, air-conditioned nanny state, where everything is beautiful and nothing hurts. and those things are kind of true, especially if you read the papers or the carefully monitored internet. you look around the litterless streets where everything seems to work just fine, just fine. and you think, or you could be forgiven for thinking, gee, maybe a one-party system is just what we need. you look at all the social problems and ethnic strife, street crime, drugs that singapore has managed to avoid, and you could think, is this the life we want? it ain t my sy
it s attracting a lot of attention, including that of former formula one champion nico rosberg. now green tech investor, he s founded the green tech festival in berlin where alister keane caught up with him. just describe to us the festival and where we are. greentech festival is europe s biggest sustainability event now, and it s actually a global series. we re in berlin, we ve done london, we re doing la singapore, and it s really it s all about i mean, it s the leading innovation and bringing it all together here and the people behind that also. so we have politicians, we have scientists, we have startups, ngos, business ceos. everybody s coming together here to form partnerships, deals and also to inspire. we want to reach many, many people, to inspire people also on this movement. what s your motivation for putting this on? my motivation was that i want to contribute with what i m doing as an entrepreneur.
shchlt ah la la la la sha la la la singapore. one could be forgiven for thinking it s a giant, ultramodern shopping mall. an interconnected, fully wired, air-conditioned nanny state, where everything is beautiful and nothing hurts.