"Sensitive" Innovation, vitality and value of information technology

There is increased attention given to developments which will make it possible for the environment to react to one or several individuals, and a social connection between people and smart equipment will evolve. We will equip ordinary objects with options to perceive the environment, to make calculations where required and to transmit the results by wireless via a tight/closed network. This way we connect the sensed data from the physical world to the virtual world of networks, computers and the internet. Add to this the developments in communities and crowds and, voilá, we can conclude that a new and incredibly interesting period in our ‘Computer Science’ era is commencing.

Our ‘traditional craft’ is returning! For in the development of the world described above, knowledge in the fields of radio transmission, batteries (energy-saving), solar cells, photonics, digital signal processing, sensors and their fundamental operations, distributed computing and programmable networks is relevant again.