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Technology change has an increasing effect on our lives and on business prosperity so it is vital to identify what is coming next and how we might benefit from it.

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Gregory, M.A., Glance, D. (2013). Predictions. In: Security and the Networked Society. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02390-8_7

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