How the UAE Became Comfortable Experimenting With the Future
Innovation in some parts of the world is like a turtle; it moves very slowly.
Ideas are so new that may never be allowed to reach the public. Governments even go to the length of testing small pilot cases before that scale to the national level.
The UAE, on the other hand, is known to function a little differently.
Not every time a hundred percent certainty is needed before a decision is made, the country most of the times opts for controlled experiments. In actual fact, new technologies first appear as trials, prototypes, or limited initiatives.
Many finally turn into an integral part of people’s day-to-day life.
Systems of digital identity, smart infrastructure, artificial intelligence programsthey all started as bold experiments, which is why there are now so many people who use these tools.
The promptness in testing ideas is what makes the UAE be on the list of places where the future is sometimes ahead of us.
Naturally, trying the unknown always involves risk. Not all the plans succeed exactly as planned.
However, looking at the bigger picture, it really talks of the fact that we are to first test some things if we are to make progress, not wait until they are safe.
