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The following view of the future is not intended to be the outcome of a sophisticated formal forecast of the year 2000. It is more like a series of snapshots of the possible future. But they are not ‘shots in the dark’. They are the result of systematic analysis of current trends, and they are given to show how some of the methodology described in previous chapters is used. Forecasting requires a body of past relevant and reliable knowledge to enable it to function effectively. This knowledge does not exist for the 1990s. Hence, the residual error in this forecast can be much bigger than we would normally expect. But at least these forecast outcomes can be used as a basis for discussion and further analysis.
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Brech, R.J. (1982). A Psycho-Socio-Politico-Economic View of the Future. In: Twiss, B.C. (eds) Social Forecasting for Company Planning. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04811-3_12
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