Evidence Matters: a report from the MRS Annual Conference
The theme of the MRS's annual conference – 'Evidence Matters' – underlined the importance of quality data in a world of new sources with dramatic and continuously evolving potential.
Day one: Highlights and insights
An unpredictable future
Futurologist Magnus Lindkvist's warned that the future is impossible to predict, surprises lurk everywhere and the past is no guide to the future. But this standard message of futurology was brightened by fresh language and concepts, and a fair sprinkling of paradox and contradiction.
We live in a world of 'infobesity', he said, unable...