Gartner Hype cycle

What happens when a new promising technology gets introduced?

How it pans out to become a mainstream technology of choice?

What cycle it goes through?

When it’s safe to be adopted?

These are some of the questions that Gartner hype cycle tries to provide answers to

The cycle talks about the five phases a technology goes through

Trigger: Early prototypes gets people interested. Though yet to be proven, there is a lot of excitement and publicity at this stage

Expectation: This is when the success stories of early adopters comes out. The initial success of few takes the expectation on the new technology to the peak, tempting others to adopt it  

Disillusionment: When the initial excitement fails to yield the expected returns. Many fail at this stage, investment reduces to a minimum.

Enlightenment: The technology gets more widely understood and its benefits becomes clear. New robust products begin to appear, learning from the previous set of failures.

Productivity: The technology starts to pay off and attracts widespread adoption.  

Gartner hype cycle is a graphical representation of these five phases a technology goes through from its trigger till its widespread adoption

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