A year of tech industry hype in a single graph | The Verge & Gartner - 1 views

• 
  #1 Jabari Adisa on 13 Aug 14

   

  http://www.theverge.com/2014/8/12/5995577/a-year-of-tech-industry-hype-in-a-single-graph
  
  "Tech industry trends follow a fairly predictable pattern: there's a rush of hype, an inevitable backlash, and then a long, tired slog towards a product that actually works. It eventually produces incredible things like the internal combustion engine or my Droid 4, but it can be hard to tell exactly where given technology is on the slow journey from bullshit to reality.
  
  Luckily, the analysts at Gartner have given us a kind of roadmap, plotting out the trends of 2014 on an immutable line they call the Hypecycle..."

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner"><a href="http://www.theverge.com/2014/8/12/5995577/a-year-of-tech-industry-hype-in-a-single-graph" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.theverge.com/2014/8/12/5995577/a-year-of-tech-industry-hype-in-a-single-graph</a> <br /> <br /> "Tech industry trends follow a fairly predictable pattern: there's a rush of hype, an inevitable backlash, and then a long, tired slog towards a product that actually works. It eventually produces incredible things like the internal combustion engine or my Droid 4, but it can be hard to tell exactly where given technology is on the slow journey from bullshit to reality. <br /> <br /> Luckily, the analysts at Gartner have given us a kind of roadmap, plotting out the trends of 2014 on an immutable line they call the Hypecycle..."</div>

  ...

  Cancel

To Top