Envisioning Future Internet Enterprise Systems: Visionary Scenarios and New Research Areas

History and the evolution of sciences have taught us that in order to come up with results that can benefit in a efficient manner the whole of society, research has to be steered and coordinated in such a way, as to foster and promote collaboration between researchers. Only such an organised attempt will result in addressing the main challenges of the future that are being revealed every day. However, prior to reaching those points, one has to envision how the future will look like and how people and enterprises will operate in such an environment. The latter can be achieved by employing visionary scenarios that are in a position to describe in an efficient and effective way the future of society and businesses.