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Gartner has revealed its 2016 hype cycle for emerging technologies. For those of you unfamiliar with the document, Gartner rates technologies as emerging after an “innovation trigger” before ascending to a “peak of inflated expectations”. From there, technologies often fail to deliver on their promise and tumble into a “trough …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    My feelings about Gartner...

    Have never evolved beyond the trough of disillusion...

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    Ooo I love Gartner reports.....

    ..it's a great way of finding our what pointless bit of shit our directors will want, without knowing what it exactly is and how we will use it.

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      Re: Ooo I love Gartner reports.....

      What I get from this is that putting "smart" in front of naff ideas adds nothing to the description but gets you plenty of media hype and a big bump up the rising expectations curve. Now, how do I change my handle to "Smart Newt"?

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  3. Buzzword

    Well of abandonment

    Some of these technologies will simply plummet into the deep well of abandonment, rather than achieve any meaningful traction. Connected Home? It was a bad idea in the 1950s; it's an even worse idea today.

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