Is the future of land acquisition systems in single sensors or groups? Cable, radio or no data telemetry (ie autonomous node) systems? Single or multi-component? Single sensors provide better signal than geophone groups; improved resolution and improved multi-component data. However, the increased noise with single sensors must be compensated with increased data density and more sophisticated data processing, and getting the value from shear waves seems more difficult than acquiring multicomponent data. The potential operational advantage of systems without cables is in areas with limited access or if the receiver station interval is large. Cable based systems have operational advantages where cables can be deployed, receiver station intervals are small and the geophysical advantage of improved field QC.