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Figure 9 – Key trends of future ICT eco-society

Value-added services of future ICT infrastructure
From a narrow perspective of ICTs, the expected market potentials of telecommunication and broadcast
services are not so great even though 5G technology and ultra-high definition TV technology may appear in
the market. The high speed and high quality of ICTs may be not significantly interesting since network
performance is counting on the law of marginal utility. However, there are more productive, competitive,
and innovative ICT markets if the value-added services and the discovery of new technology can be cultivated,
as shown in Figure 10. The web- and app-services on cloud environments will be continuously upgraded and
added to deliver new values. The wide variety of social media services can create a new life style and a new
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business model (we call this trend 2 class of ICT industries). Finally, if future knowledge platforms are well
organized to invoke collective intelligence and crowdsourcing among people, this will be very useful also for
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other industries such as education, energy, health, and transportation, etc., (we call this trend 3 class of ICT
industries). Therefore, new market volumes of future ICT services will be greater than those of traditional
telecommunication and broadcast services.

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