Accelerating technologies will enable products to be developed and released so quickly that release rates may exceed people's abilities to integrate them. The time between a product introduction and the market's adoption will be greatly shortened. The total demand for any product might be much lower, since the next version, or totally different replacement, will be available very quickly. Package design criteria will have to adjust. It will be materials versus processes that revolutionize packaging in the next century.
New materials are necessary to address the demand for miniaturization.
Today we have the recyclable automobile. Miniaturization will allow us to create implantable devices that function within, versus on, our bodies. I believe that two factors will influence the evolution of advanced packaging. These factors will drive each other. For example, a device implanted into a person's vascular system will be required to function while exposed to blood.