Cognitive trends in making: future of networks

We are arguing that some new interesting trends in making are emerging. We try to identify some aspects that could provide hard problems with potentially high payout for the future research. We also show how some of the topics are shared between both wireless and fixed network domain. We propose as a hypothesis that the key issue in the future is to understand and lower the increasing complexity (increasing abstraction) of communications systems. There are several different ways towards this goal.