For all the flak that Dubai gets online, it’s hard not to appreciate what a small fishing town has made of itself in a few decades. What’s more spectacular is that it doesn’t owe its wealth to oil reserves (like its neighbours do), but to innovative and daring decision-making by its leaders, who’ve displayed brilliant foresight on multiple occasions.
And that seems to be happening in Dubai yet again. From trade to tax-free structures to finance to tourism, Dubai has now chosen technology to be its next big pivot.