Is IoT Hype For Real?

Peter Silva, 2014-19-08

It is only tting that the 20th anniversary of the Gartner Hype Cycle has the Internet of Things right at the top of the
coaster. IoT is currently at the peak of Inated Expectations. The Gartner Hype Cycle give organizations an assessment
of the maturity, business benet and future direction of more than 2,000 technologies. The theme for this year's
Emerging Technologies Hype Cycle is Digital Business.

As you can see, being at the top really means that there is a ton of media coverage about the technology, so much so
that it starts to get a little silly. Everyone is talking about it, including this author. What you can also so is the downward
trend to follow. This is the trough of disillusionment. Gamication, Mobile Health Monitoring and Big Data all fall into this
area. It means that they already hit their big hype point but doesn't necessarily mean that it's over. The slope of
enlightenment shows technologies that are nally mature enough to actually have reasonable expectations about. Each
of the technologies also have a time line of when it'll mature. For IoT, it looks like 5 to 10 years. So while we're hearing all
the noise about IoT now, society probably won't be fully immersed for another decade...even though we'll see gradual
steps toward it over the next few years.
Once all our people, places and things are connected, you can also get a sense of what else is coming in the Innovation
Trigger area. Come the 2025 time frame, things like Smart Robots, Human Augmentation and a Brain Computer
Interface could be the headlines of the day. Just imagine, instead of having to type this blog out on a keyboard, I could
simply (and wirelessly) connect my brain chip to the computer and just think this.
Hey, Stop reading my mind!!
ps
Related:
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Chart of the Week: The hype cycle of emerging technologies
The Internet of Things and DNS
F5 Predicts: Internet of Things Drives Demand for 'Social Intelligence'
Internet of Things OWASP Top 10
The Icebox Cometh

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