It’s “Gartner hype cycle” time again
The whole “Gartner hype cycle” thing is a little corny, but it’s a solid representation of which technologies are starting to get interesting (“Internet of things?”), which mega-hyped ideas are about to crash down to reality (augmented reality, NFC payments), and which ones might actually become useful in the near future (virtual worlds?).
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