'Version 2020': Five Arts Centre's alternate future for Malaysia

Actor Faiq (left) and dancer-choreographer Lee in a scene from Five Arts Centre's 'Version 2020 - The Complete Futures Of Malaysia (Chapter 3)'. Photo: Masahiro Hasunuma

When Wawasan 2020 was launched in 1991, it spoke of a future brimming with hope and promise; Malaysia was to be a high-income, first world nation-state by 2020. But as time passed, the Wawasan 2020-themed flying cars and futuristic buildings drawn by school kids in the 1990s, and everything that came with it, seem to fade into oblivion.

Last year, Transformasi Nasional 2050 (TN50) was announced.