We live in a world of constantly emerging, developing and maturing technologies.  These technologies are at the confluence of rapidly accelerating ideas and innovation.

The IT industry research firm Gartner has for many years tracked and analyzed emerging technologies from their inception to their fruition or demise and has developed, from their observations, the Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies.

This cycle tracks the market views of various technologies, which go through predictable cycles from their “trigger” to their inflated peak of expectations, then down into the trough of disillusionment, then up the slope of enlightenment and, finally, to the plateau of productivity.

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