--- title: Five Best Ideas of the Day: March 24 description: Singapore after Lee Kuan Yew, finding urban resilience through the arts, the boring robots of the future, redesigning death and more. canonical: https://time.com/3755835/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-march-24/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-24T16:01:08.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:04:54.299Z article:section: Ideas og:title: These Are Today's Best Ideas og:description: Singapore after Lee Kuan Yew, the boring robots of the future, and more og:url: https://time.com/3755835/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-march-24/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: These Are Today's Best Ideas twitter:description: Singapore after Lee Kuan Yew, the boring robots of the future, and more twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Five Best Ideas of the Day: March 24 by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 24, 2015 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 24, 2015 4:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Lee Kuan Yew didn’t think Singapore could survive true democracy. After his death, Singapore must do just that.**](https://www.commentarymagazine.com/2015/03/23/lee-kuan-yews-genius-and-democracy-capitalism-singapore/) By Max Boot in Commentary **2\.** [**Resilience means more than flexible infrastructure. Cities must open doors to creative vibrance through the arts.**](http://www.100resilientcities.org/blog/entry/putting-the-arts-to-work-for-city-resilience-creative-placemaking#/-%5F/) By Jason Schupbach at 100 Resilient Cities **3\.** [**Why does China need the next Dalai Lama?**](http://www.economist.com/news/china/21646795-even-china-accepts-only-dalai-lama-can-legitimise-its-rule-tibet-golden-urn) By the Economist **4\.** [**The robots of the near future aren’t threatening. They’re boring.**](http://www.popsci.com/bring-boring-robots) By Erik Sofge in Popular Science **5\.** [**Can we truly redesign the experience of death?**](https://stories.californiasunday.com/2015-04-05/death-redesigned) By Jon Mooallem in California Sunday  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3755835/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-march-24/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3755835/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-march-24/"},"headline":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: March 24","datePublished":"2015-03-24T16:01:08.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:04:54.299Z","description":"Singapore after Lee Kuan Yew, finding urban resilience through the arts, the boring robots of the future, redesigning death and more.","url":"https://time.com/3755835/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-march-24/","keywords":["Innovation","Death","China","robots","Arts","cities","Dalai Lama","Singapore","resilience"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3755835/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-march-24/","name":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: March 24"}}]}] ```