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We Think - Therefore We Are

Future developments in AI and robotics, brain interfaces, the Internet and virtual and augmented reality, will make possible new types of integration of humans and machines which will change how we think, learn and live. This paper uses a story about a future scenario involving systems of this kind to respond to crises and disasters to explore the possibilities of collective intelligence and co...

As We May Think

So we think we can dance.

CMA, CPhA, and Rx&D to join them, the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health, and the group purchasing organizations HealthPRO and Medbuy in forming the Multi-Stakeholder Steering Committee on Drug Shortages, for collaborative numbers on preventing and mitigating shortages across Canada. CSHP performed a pas de deux with its British Columbia Branch to raise public awareness of the...

What We Know; What We Think

Fifteen years of research studies have concluded unanimously that spreadsheet errors are both common and non-trivial. Now we must seek ways to reduce spreadsheet errors. Several approaches have been suggested, some of which are promising and others, while appealing because they are easy to do, are not likely to be effective. To date, only one technique, cell-by-cell code inspection, has been de...

What we think and what we know.

This is an editorial that has found a voice only after a lot of struggle about what ought to be said and what ought not. In this issue, Crespo et al. (1) examined data from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III) and reported that postmenopausal women taking hormone replacement therapy (HRT) have better lipoprotein profiles as well as some improvement in componen...