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Virtually everything we do in dentistry that involves research, teaching, administration or patient care is based on generation, storage and manipulation of information (information management). The current paradigm for managing information in dentistry, as in most health care, is human memory backed by printed or written information stored in books or journals. We distribute and communicate information via printed or verbal channels.
“The postindustrial society will be fueled not by oil but by a new commodity called artificial intelligence (AI). ...the knowledge imbedded in AI software and hardware architectures will become even more salient as a foundation of wealth than the raw materials that fueled the first Industrial Revolution. ...it has no material form. It can be a flow of information with no more physical reality than electrical vibrations in a wire.”
Raymond Kurzweil
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Abbey, L.M. (1992). Mastering Change. In: Abbey, L.M., Zimmerman, J.L. (eds) Dental Informatics. Computers in Health Care. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9160-9_1
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