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Het hart van de toekomst, de toekomst van het hart : scenario's over hart- en vaatziekten 1985-2010
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ISBN: 9031308137 Year: 1986 Publisher: Deurne Bohn, Scheltema & Holkema


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The future of psychiatry
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ISBN: 0416843409 9780416843408 Year: 1975 Publisher: London: Methuen,


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The future as an academic discipline
ISBN: 902194040X 0444151842 Year: 1975 Publisher: Amsterdam Elsevier

Mind and brain sciences in the 21st century
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ISBN: 026219385X 0262692236 0262284049 0585078483 9780262284042 9780585078489 9780262692236 9780262193856 Year: 1997 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press

Future libraries : dreams, madness & reality
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ISBN: 0585321140 9780585321141 0838906478 Year: 1995 Publisher: Chicago : American Library Association,

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Argues against the futuristic idea of virtual libraries because it is devastating to the societal mission of libraries, proposing instead a balanced, human-oriented approach to technology that complements print, community library buildings, and user-friendly librarians.


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The pandemic perhaps
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ISBN: 0520959760 9780520959767 9780520284081 0520284089 9780520284098 0520284097 Year: 2015 Publisher: Oakland, California

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In 2005, American experts sent out urgent warnings throughout the country: a devastating flu pandemic was fast approaching. Influenza was a serious disease, not a seasonal nuisance; it could kill millions of people. If urgent steps were not taken immediately, the pandemic could shut down the economy and "trigger a reaction that will change the world overnight." The Pandemic Perhaps explores how American experts framed a catastrophe that never occurred. The urgent threat that was presented to the public produced a profound sense of insecurity, prompting a systematic effort to prepare the population for the coming plague. But when that plague did not arrive, the race to avert it carried on. Paradoxically, it was the absence of disease that made preparedness a permanent project.The Pandemic Perhaps tells the story of what happened when nothing really happened. Drawing on fieldwork among scientists and public health professionals in New York City, the book is an investigation of how actors and institutions produced a scene of extreme expectation through the circulation of dramatic plague visions. It argues that experts deployed these visions to draw attention to the possibility of a pandemic, frame the disease as a catastrophic event, and make it meaningful to the nation. Today, when we talk about pandemic influenza, we must always say "perhaps." What, then, does it mean to engage a disease in the modality of the maybe?


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Big data : a revolution that will transform how we live, work, and think
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ISBN: 0544227751 9780544227750 0544002695 9780544002692 Year: 2014 Publisher: Boston Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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"Academic Mayer-Schönberger and editor Cukier consider big data the new ability to crunch vast collections of information, analyze it instantly, and draw conclusions from it. Big data is about predictions: math applied to large quantities of data in order to infer probabilities. Because big data allows us to analyze far more data, we will move beyond expecting exactness and can no longer be fixated on causation. The authors state, The correlations may not tell us precisely why something is happening, but they alert us that it is happening. For individuals, big data risks an invasion of privacy, as vast amounts of personal data are collected and the potential exists to accuse a person of some possible future behavior that has not happened. The authors conclude that big data is a tool that doesn't offer ultimate answers, just good-enough ones to help us now until better methods and hence better answers come along. This book offers important insights and information for many library patrons."--Mary Whaley, Booklist.

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