In the introductory part of this seminar I review the importance of advances in instrumentation for the success of collider experiments and give a concrete example from recent LHC experience. I proceed to discuss the possible future directions that open up for particle physics, with an emphasis on the detector requirements of linear electron-positron colliders at the energy frontier. The last part of the seminar is devoted to some highlights on recent progress in detector R&D for ultra-transparente and highly granular devices for the detection of charged particles.

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Marcel Vos is an ICREA candidate.