Forecasting the future in science is fun but often hopelessly misleading. This publication, commissioned by all the Nature journals, focuses on future developments about which we can be reasonably confident and which will have an impact on the lives of all of us.
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Campbell, P. Tales of the expected. Nature 402 (Suppl 6761), C7–C9 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/35011500
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