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COMMENTARIES ON THE FUTURE OF PHYSICS should not be judged by how glamorous the presentation is or by how much they may appeal to the author’s or reader’s prejudices; they should be judged on how well they actually predict the future. Thus time alone will reveal the validity of this predictive discourse. Furthermore, with the enormous uncertainty of the future, all you can expect is a reasonably plausible scenario of the future, not the exact details of it. Since I am often misunderstood, let me state at the beginning that the predictions I am making are not necessarily those I wish would happen; they are not a rationalization of my desire, but rather a mixture of my hopes and fears.
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Hamming, R.W. (2000). The Future of Physics. In: Hecker, S.S., Rota, GC. (eds) Essays on the Future. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0777-1_7
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