Communicating the future

Insights into a changing market and the way ahead from leading thinkers on the future of telecoms.

“Consider how the smartphone, now a ubiquitous tool and toy, has changed the very fabric of our daily lives in the course of just seven years.”
Rohit Talwar / Fast Future Research

“Our addiction to or dependence on mobile devices, social networks, the internet in general is already eroding the concept of personal privacy.”
Gerd Leonhard / The Futures Agency

“Hybridization of technology is the defining feature of our future … no longer just a phone but a smart phone, a computer in your hand.”
Gerfried Stocker / Ars Electronica

“The very human need to communicate will remain … The end user has been unleashed at the edge of the system driving the news and the debate.”
Blaise Judja-Sato / ITU

“Mobile is the biggest human opportunity of both convenience and empowerment. The biggest opportunity to control our own destiny.”
Paul Papadimitriou / Digital Intelligence

“Governments and businesses need to be aware of the dangers of using technology for surveillance – and of the backlash from citizens and consumers empowered to use drones, sensors and cameras to open up corporate and government powers to a more equal degree of scrutiny.”
Yuri Van Geest / Singularity University