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Predicting the future is something we all do as part of our daily life. In fact, we do not really live in the present, because as soon as you think about it, it is already in the past. Thus, most of our thoughts abound around future events. However, correct predictions are not easy. First of all we need past experiences through which we can extract a model of how the world works. Once we have that in place, we need to make assumptions and then infer new knowledge from the combination of the world model and those assumptions.
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Dingli, A., Seychell, D. (2015). Future Trends. In: The New Digital Natives. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46590-5_9
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