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Future Perspectives: Opportunities, Risks and Requirements in Adaptronics

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We live in a world which changes frighteningly quickly — a well worn cliché perhaps, but a simple statement that encapsulates the potential and the problems not only in adaptronics but in countless other areas of science and technology.

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Culshaw, B. (1999). Future Perspectives: Opportunities, Risks and Requirements in Adaptronics. In: Janocha, H. (eds) Adaptronics and Smart Structures. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03819-2_11

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