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Saturday Mornings: Tech Fatigue, AI Anxiety & The RTS Shockwave: Singapore’s Reality Check

Published on 1 Aug 2026
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🌍On MoneyFM 89.3’s Wide Angle Segment, David Black, CEO Blackbox joins Saturday Mornings Show host Glenn van Zutphen to dive into one of the most quietly explosive shifts happening in Singaporean life: the collision of AI overload, tech fatigue, and the RTS link’s billion‑dollar gravitational pull toward Johor Bahru. 

Singaporeans are exhausted from the micro‑aggressions of tech that now shadow every moment of work, home, and play. As David puts it, tech is “in your face all day long,” and AI risks becoming just another layer unless it replaces work, not adds to it. Younger workers? They’re embracing AI while quietly fearing it may automate them out of the very jobs they’re helping build.

Then comes the upcoming RTS: a five‑minute ride from to JB from Singapore that could siphon an estimated $290M to $1B in retail and F&B spending across the Causeway. Singaporeans see opportunity; businesses see threat. And what about JB’s strained infrastructure?

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