Internet-based services have become established as new channels in addition to the classical media newspaper, radio and television. In the next years the Internet will more and more change the classical media themselves. The influence will be visible in every stage of the media value chain. Content generation and aggregation as well as production technologies, distribution channels and media consumption will evolve.
In the case of printed media even the direct interface to the customer will change radically with the forthcoming electronic paper. In respect of technology a set of major trends can be extracted from historical and current developments as well as from technologies currently in R&D roadmaps of major technology companies and research institutions.