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Figure 13 – Step-wise evolution toward future ICT infrastructure

Figure 13 shows the overall roadmap of evolution toward the future convergence era relying on ICT
infrastructure. In the first stage, the evolution of traditional industries such as energy, health, robots,
machines, and vehicles simply utilize the data delivery capability of the existing network and computing
infrastructure. The new technologies like IoT/M2M are applied to increase the productivity of traditional
industries. The collaborative and interdisciplinary methods among various fields of knowledge are triggered
to open a new convergence era in the second stage of evolution. Many key technologies are integrated with
a certain level of intelligence. In the third stage of evolution, a new industrial structure is organized and
constituted toward a future knowledge convergence society, which is quite different from the existing
classification of industries. Conceptually, the future industrial structure toward a new creative eco-
convergence era may be classified into five types: autono system, uEco-city, self-organized services,
knowledge media, and governance:
1 Autono system: It is realized that autonomy is applied to all the eco-systems as well as individual
systems like intelligent robots. It is used to refer to the self-governing system.

2 uEco-city: The uEco-city means the evolution of an eco-friendly ubiquitous city. The current
metropolitan environments may be transformed to eco-cities in which the information and
communication technologies enhance quality and performance of urban life and reduce costs and
resource consumptions on transport, energy, healthcare, water, and waste.

3 Self-organized services: The self-organized services mean that all the operations of the physical
system and software platform have the characteristics of a self-organized and self-sufficient
systems. The software running at a specific system has a capability of self-organization and self-
correction in cases of faults and abnormal situations. In the cloud computing environments, a self-
organized service is crucial to discover and consume the service autonomously. Precise and robust
service discovery algorithms are desirable.
4 Knowledge media: Future lifelong education needs a self-motivated pursuit of knowledge for either
personal or professional reasons. Knowledge media is incorporated over the existing education and
media with cognitive and learning sciences. Knowledge media is about the processes of generating,
understanding and sharing knowledge using several different media.

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