Lin Hsin Hsin - IT Visionary

IT Visionary

Lin Hsin Hsin is a digital native. She builds and pens her IT vision in computing, poems and paintings.

• 1999 February 1, poem titled "Mobility" on mobility, p. 20, "Between the Lines"
• 1995 September 9, poem titled "The Day Will Come..." on sms, using fingers to type on screen, p. 181, "In Bytes we Travel"
• 1994 Designed and built first virtual museum in the world,
• 1994 May, painted “Voices of the Future” -- oil painting depicted the wireless and mobile entertainment future lifestyle, p. 32, "Lin Hsin Hsin: Works from Art, Science & Technology Series"
• 1993 August 23, poem titled "Till Bankrupt Do Us Part", on online shopping & e-commerce, p. 241, "Sunny Side Up"
• 1993 February, predicted the Y2K bug while building a ten year forecasting model on an IBM i486 PC, Journal of thye Asia Pacific Economic Conference (APEC), 1999
• 1992 May, use the @ symbol in a book title, book front cover & title page, "Love @ 1st Byte"
• 1992 wanted to build a multimedia museum (letter to National Computer Board, Singapore)
• 1977 painted "The Computer as Architect" -- oil painting depicted the vision of the power of computer in architecture.

Ten years before Hsin Hsin created the 1st 3D digital art in Singapore, she has never seen nor used a CAD system. However, she has envisaged the use of computer for architecture, hence the title of the painting.

• 1976 painted "Distillation of an Apple" -- oil painting visualizing the construction and usage of Apple computer 7 days before the birth of Apple computer.