During the past decades we dreamed, anticipated, waited for a future time when technology would shape a new landscape for EDM. Many of the components have been around for quite a long time. Others are just emerging. But now, for the first time, that future has come to being. EDM in many different shapes, spanning from home-grown systems to hosted repositories, has become the established method for managing official documentation. Registration dossiers are built electronically even for paper submissions and safety information is exchanged in electronic formats. Is this the end of the story? Certainly not but this much is certain: the future we dreamed of then, is now.