ICT Department Project of the National Research Council of Italy 2009

The presentation of the 2009 edition, mid-term review over a five years period (2006-2011), puts to the attention of the reader an important consideration, for sure not to be fully elucidated in few lines, related to the role of Knowledge Technologies in view of "the Network that will come" (and, nowadays, nobody is able to foresee how it will be and what kind of impact will have on society at worldwide level), named inside the international ICT specific circuits as Future Internet: Internet of People, Internet of Services, Internet of Contents, Internet of Things. In such an historical perspective, it is necessary to advise all the ICT actors for being properly conscious and aware of the responsibility and potential criticisms of their actions, particularly in the short and medium range. Metaphorically, they find themselves as those people to whom it happens to manage, by a sort of historical accident, "the yeast for the bread of tomorrow".