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Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2008
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

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
Tables
Table 1.
Hype Cycle Phases
Table 2.
Benefit Ratings
Table 3.
Maturity Levels
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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