  This talk discusses extrapolations to the LHC of several, apparently
universal trends, seen in the data on relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions
up to RHIC energies. In the soft physics sector, such extrapolations to the LHC
are typically at odds with LHC predictions of the dynamical models, advocated
to underlie multi-particle production up to RHIC energies. I argue that due to
this, LHC is likely to be a discovery machine not only in the hard, but also in
the soft physics sector.
