Attended an open house meeting with representatives from the 5 other halls and the NUSSU people in charge of Open Day 2013 just yesterday. The intent to slowly displace the 6 halls from the NUS campus and to promote the newer campus accommodation was pretty obvious from the way things were being handled and one can't help but consider the survival of the obsolete and the power play that was in place.

Having been born into the generation that had witnessed the rapid evolution of technology, from the floppy disk, to the CDs, and the smaller CDs, then the thumbdrives and the hard disks, and then dropbox, one could imagine how quickly it takes for one object to be replaced with another. We replace in order to compete in order to improve. But if change is merely just the processes in between, then where are all these changes leading the world to. If companies are changing for the mere sake of comparison, and schools replace their facilities to compete in rankings, then what's with the pace of change of the world? To compete with the other planets? Worse still, while some catch up, others fall behind the current pace of development.
Who decides what to change? The motives of those in power to make such decisions is rather questionable. Is it truly for the improvement of all mankind? How long more will it take for even us to be replaced by the products of what we are building up?

All I see is mankind inching towards its own destruction in the near future.