Coming technology
Displacing entrenched technology
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Successful technology — and I’m using the term broadly here, not just limiting myself to digital tech — has a propensity to entrench itself and then become very hard to displace, at least directly. A classic example is the internal combustion automobile (which I’ll call the “gas auto” for shorthand). Commercial production started over 130 […]
The Gartner Hype Cycle, 2013
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Barry Ritholtz, over at the always-worth-reading The Big Picture, posts the latest “hype cycle” from GartnerĀ and where current proposed/emerging/developing technologies stand. I wasn’t familiar with Gartner’s stages of hype (as shown along the bottom of the chart), but they’re very useful. The overall concept meshes well with an article I wrote back in 2009 for […]