More important,

will denial of such access, in the coming
century, be considered even a remotely viable possibility by even the
dumbest of policemen?

Hard to say. And therein, perhaps, lies Singapore's real importance. The
overt goal of the national IT2000 initiative is a simple one: to sustain
indefinitely, for a population of 2.8 million, annual increases in
productivity of three to four percent.