It's Hype Cycle time. Today the 2012 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies
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"Gartner's 2012 Hype Cycle Special Report provides strategists and planners with an assessment of the maturity, business benefit and future direction of more than 1,900 technologies, grouped into 92 areas. New Hype Cycles this year include big data, the Internet of Things, in-memory computing and strategic business capabilities ..." via / more gartner.com
On the Rise
Human Augmentation
Quantum Computing
3D Bioprinting
Volumetric and Holographic Displays
Automatic Content Recognition
3D Scanners
Autonomous Vehicles
Mobile Robots
Internet of Things
At the Peak
Natural-Language Question Answering
Silicon Anode Batteries
Speech-to-Speech Translation
Crowdsourcing
Big Data
Gamification
HTML5
Hybrid Cloud Computing
Wireless Power
3D Printing
BYOD
Complex-Event Processing
Social Analytics
Private Cloud Computing
Application Stores
Augmented Reality
In-Memory Database Management Systems
Activity Streams
NFC Payment
Sliding Into the Trough
Internet TV
Audio Mining/Speech Analytics
NFC
Cloud Computing
Machine-to-Machine Communication Services
Mesh Networks: Sensor
Gesture Control
In-Memory Analytics
Text Analytics
Home Health Monitoring
Hosted Virtual Desktops
Virtual Worlds
Mobile OTA Payment
Climbing the Slope
Media Tablets
Consumerization
Biometric Authentication Methods
Idea Management
Consumer Telematics
Speech Recognition
Entering the Plateau
Predictive Analytics
more about the 2012 Hype Cycle Emerging Technologies at gartner.com
Nachtrag:
Hype Cycle 2012 for Social Software

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