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Attempts to forecast the future are always wrong: the probability of being right, at any detailed level, is very, very small. All we can do is guess, aided by more or less information about the present direction of the economy, technological development, the political stability of the country and the probable direction of policy, the possible environmental developments that may take place, demographic trends, and so on.
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Wilson, T.D. (1997). Future Scenarios: The Context of Strategic Planning. In: Bakker, S. (eds) Health Information Management: What Strategies?. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8786-0_1
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