Published by Imperial College’s Tech Foresight team, this puts developments in telecoms technology into a wider context of disruptive emerging technologies and use cases for the coming decade and beyond. The table includes work in five overarching areas:
- Data Ecosystems
- Smart Planet
- Extreme Automation
- Human Augmentation
- Human-Machine Interactions
Please visit their website for a downloadable version and timeline.

Alex Lawrence is Managing Editor at 6GWorld. His mission is to bring together stakeholders from across industries, countries and disciplines to make sure that, as technology evolves in the coming decade, it’s meeting the changing demands of society, government and business.
He has been involved as a professional nosy person in the telecoms sphere since 2004, with short detours through industrial O&M and marketing.
If you’d like to talk to Alex about your ideas or projects he’d love to hear from you. @animalawrence or alex.lawrence@6gworld.com.