I always make the distinction between three timeframes the first timeframe is the time frame ‘far far’ away. Only the stuff that is within our reach between two to five years is interesting, and that from the Gartner hype cycle, are: 5G, Edge analytics, 3d sensing cameras, and augmented intelligence are things that you more or less could keep an eye on. And even stuff that’s on the five to ten years’ timeframe suffers the same faith. But then I mean, that if something is more than ten years ahead, so many things can happen in that period of time, that it becomes almost non-interesting for the next, let’s say, five to seven years. And one of the challenges that you have, when you’re plotting so far into the future, is that the accuracy is sort of gone. Some of these technologies are even on a timescale of more than ten years. More than the average CIO would consider. Most of them are becoming interesting, in a timeframe of five to ten years. My disappointment is really about the timeframe of these emerging technologies. And I must say that I’m a bit disappointed. From my experience, I know that this hype cycle is one that is found often in boardrooms, So I’m always interested to see what’s on the hype cycle for this year.
This hype cycle shows the technologies that Gartner believes CIOs should look at in the next couple of years. Every year in August, Gartner releases a new Hype Cycle of Emerging Technologies.