Government should provide basis for digital progress
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/01/10
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Premier William Lai (賴清德) promised Wednesday that he
Premier William Lai addressing the CommonWealth Economic Forum Wednesday. (By Central News Agency)
would promote technological development and the digital sector to turn Taiwan into an “intelligent country.”
The promise came in a speech titled “Taiwan’s next step” and delivered at a CommonWealth Magazine forum about “Technology, Globalization and Humanity’s Future.”
“As long as I haven’t been replaced by Artificial Intelligence,” the premier joked, “I will promote every kind of policy … in order to improve the lives of our citizens,” the Chinese-language Liberty Times quoted him as saying.
Lai looked at Taiwan ten years from now, wondering if today’s vehicles would be replaced by self-driving cars or environmentally friendlier vehicles, and if citizens would have gone beyond mobile payment systems.