Future prospects in observational galaxy evolution: towards increased
  resolution
  Future prospects in observational galaxy evolution are reviewed from a
personal perspective. New insights will especially come from high-redshift
integral field kinematic data and similar low-redshift observations in very
large and definitive surveys. We will start to systematically probe the mass
structures of galaxies and their haloes via lensing from new imaging surveys
and upcoming near-IR spectroscopic surveys will finally obtain large numbers of
rest frame optical spectra at high-redshift routinely. ALMA will be an
important new ingredient, spatially resolving the molecular gas fuelling the
high star-formation rates seen in the early Universe.
