TUTORIAL SUMMARY:
Title:  Looking Ahead: Technology Evolution and the Biz of Telecommunications
Tutorial presented at : DLTs in Brazil in August 2004.
Author(s): RobertoSaracco

The tutorial is based on work carried out within a European Cooperative projects, FISTERA, that saw the contributions and interactions of researchers from many fields and from many centres in the world. The objective: to provide an understanding on the possible evolution over the next 10-15 years and its impact on telecommunications in the large.
It can be of interest to a broad constituency, evry one having a stake, or just a curiosity, in what current research are promising and how they may evolve in the future years.

The presentation consists of three parts:
- methodology used, tool developed: the objective is to socialize the approach and stimulate contributions for further analyses of technologies
- technology trajectories: some of the following areas may be presented based on the interest of the audience:
-Artificial Life
-Broadband/Bandwidth
-Communication
-Data Capture
-Human Interfacing
-Information Visual Displaying
-Information Retrieval
-Pin-pointing
-Printing atoms
-Processing
-Seamless Ubiquitous Connectivity
-Storage

For each trajectory the hurdles, evaluation of main players, research challenges and contributors are considered.

- disruptions: presentation and discussion of potential impact on the various actors in the telecom value chain of the technological/market evolution, considering:
Towards a transformation of Products into Services
The Disappearance of the Computer
Ubiquitous Seamless Connectivity
Changing traffic patterns
Unlimited Bandwidth
Disposable products
Autonomous Systems
From Content to Packaging
The emergence of virtual infrastructures