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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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Notes

  1. 1.

    Pilling (2018).

  2. 2.

    https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-spending-u-s-compare-countries/#item-since-1980-gap-widened-u-s-health-spending-countries.

  3. 3.

    https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=76.

  4. 4.

    http://www.oecd.org/newsroom/healthier-lifestyles-and-better-health-policies-drive-life-expectancy-gains.htm.

  5. 5.

    https://warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/explorefurther/digital/leo/story/.

  6. 6.

    https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/marketing-and-sales/our-insights/chinese-luxury-consumers-more-global-more-demanding-still-spending.

  7. 7.

    Silverstein and Fiske (2003).

  8. 8.

    http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-private-label-brands-list-2018-4.

  9. 9.

    https://www.inc.com/business-insider/amazon-google-most-valuable-brands-brand-finance-2018.html.

  10. 10.

    Cespedes (2014).

  11. 11.

    https://www.kdnuggets.com/2017/12/top-data-science-machine-learning-methods.html.

  12. 12.

    https://www.economist.com/node/8401269.

  13. 13.

    For balanced assessment of the current state of blockchain, see https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/digital-mckinsey/our-insights/blockchain-beyond-the-hype-what-is-the-strategic-business-value?cid=other-eml-alt-mip-mck-oth-1806&hlkid=d2c58d1171ab41a8a16e22859260e7cf&hctky=1443659&hdpid=6a0817ff-c71d-4a97-be68-b9b733f3d39f.

  14. 14.

    This paragraph is based on Pigni et al. (2015).

  15. 15.

    See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk__pjSe3a8.

  16. 16.

    https://aws.amazon.com.

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  1. Department of MIS, Terry College of Business, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA

    Richard Thomas Watson

  2. Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

    Saji K. Mathew

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Watson, R.T., Mathew, S.K. (2021). The Future. In: Capital, Systems, and Objects. Management for Professionals. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-6625-1_7

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