The work of the JISC Observatory, provided by the ISC at UKOLN and JISC Cetis, has been featured in an article published in JISC Inform. The article describes how the JISC Observatory has pulled together the top issues that are on the horizon within the year, within two to three years and within four to five years. The areas include mobiles and cloud computing (which are important for institutions now); game-based learning, new scholarship, learning analytics and semantic applications (which are expected to be significant in two to three years) and augmented reality, collective intelligence, telepresence and Smart Objects (which are expected to be of importance in four to five years).