In any case, Asians generally choose to bank in Singapore for its economic and political stability, not to hide untaxed income, says Barend Janssens of RBC Wealth Management.Singapore's apparent commitment to greater openness has yet to be tested.
They did not worry about damaging their brand and they paid the price for their honesty and openness -- yet in the process, they sent a valuable message: drugs are a personal choice, and some of the most dangerous drugs are legal.
Unfortunately, in this paradise of openness, people have yet to realize how much it is costing them not to talk about how much they earn.
When Tim Wu published his influential book Master Switch in 2010, he powerfully argued that all communications markets began with a period of creative openness and experimentation, yet within 20 years settled into some sort of state-regulated oligopoly.
Yet, openness, speed, diversity, and collaborative filtering offered by Wikipedia, can be applied to measure other aspects of scientific impact that are not captured by the traditional citation analysis, for example social impact [38] or public engagement of a scientist.
Another more obvious contradiction is Hancock's claim that "privacy and security" is one of four guiding principles for the vision (alongside "user need; interoperability and openness; and inclusion"), yet this is rubbing up against active engagement with the idea of sensitive social care data being processed by and hosted by a commercial ecommerce giant like Amazon, for example.
Yet the openness was also to ideas, including political ones.
Yet this openness closed somewhat from the Enlightenment on, when Europe sealed magic off from science, imagination from reason, and also east from west.
Yet the openness to moderate use is likely to increase, driven by changes in the science of addiction, like pharmaceutical treatments.
