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The Future

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Forecasts of the future are often wildly wrong, so this chapter is short to avoid making too many errors.

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    This paragraph is based on Pigni, F., Piccoli, G., & Watson, R. T. (2015). Digital data streams: creating value from the real-time flow of big data. California Management Review, 57(4). 5-25.

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Watson, R.T. (2021). The Future. In: Capital, Systems, and Objects. Management for Professionals. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9418-2_7

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