SINGAPORE

‘Electronic City’ Blueprint Unveiled: Seeking to develop an economy based on information and computers, Singapore has unveiled a plan to turn itself into an electronic city within 15 years. The goal is to have Singaporeans plugged into grids of fiber-optic cables that are part of a communications network linking all households, the National Computer Board said. It said that just as roads and railways were essential for industrialization in the past, the electronic grids will become the backbone of a 21st Century economy. The plan calls for every household in the city-state to be equipped with terminals that combine the functions of a telephone, computer, television, video recorder and camera.