Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2008

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9 July 2008

Jackie Fenn Nikos Drakos Whit Andrews Rita E. Knox Jim Tully Rafe John Graham Ball Joseph Unsworth John Monroe Leslie Fiering Carol Rozwell Kathy Harris W. Roy Schulte Yefim V. Natis Johan Jacobs Gene Phifer David Mitchell Smith Pete Basiliere Federico De Silva John Davison Monica Basso Simon Mingay Daniel Sholler Ray Valdes William Clark Anne Lapkin Sharon McNee Tomoko Mitani Stephen Prentice Rich Costello Scott Morrison Robert F. Mason David Gootzit

Technologies and trends at or approaching the Hype Cycle peak include green IT, cloud computing and social networking platforms. Corporate use of virtual worlds and Web 2.0 are slipping into the Trough of Disillusionment, while SOA begins its ascent of the Slope of Enlightenment.

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Table of Contents

Analysis

What You Need to Know

The Hype Cycle

The Priority Matrix

Off The Hype Cycle

On the Rise

		Erasable Paper Printing Systems
		Context Delivery Architecture
		Behavioral Economics
		Mobile Robots
		Augmented Reality
		Surface Computers
		Cloud Computing
		3-D Printing

At the Peak

		Microblogging
		Green IT
		Social Computing Platforms
		Video Telepresence

Sliding Into the Trough

		Solid-State Drives
		Public Virtual Worlds
		Web 2.0
		Service-Oriented Business Applications
		Virtual Assistants
		RFID (Case/Pallet)
		Corporate Blogging
		Idea Management
		Social Network Analysis
		Wikis
		Electronic Paper

Climbing the Slope

		Tablet PC
		SOA
		Location-Aware Applications

Entering the Plateau

Basic Web Services

Appendixes

Hype Cycle Phases, Benefit Ratings and Maturity Levels

Recommended Reading

List of Tables

	Table 1.	Hype Cycle Phases

	Table 2.	Benefit Ratings

	Table 3.	Maturity Levels

List of Figures

	Figure 1.	Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2008

	Figure 2.	Priority Matrix for Emerging Technologies, 2008

	Figure 3.	Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2007

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