Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 1995

The first Hype Cycle, from Jackie Fenn's Gartner note 'When to Leap on the Hype Cycle' (Gartner document 484408, dated 11 January 1995 on gartner.com; Fenn's LinkedIn history says February 1995). Read from Figure 2 of R.J. Stone, 'Human Factors Guidelines for Interactive 3D and Games-Based Training Systems Design' (University of Birmingham PDF, page 6), captioned 'Gartner Hype Cycle for emerging technologies, 1995. Source: Gartner Inc.'; Stone cites Fenn and Linden, 'Gartner's Hype Cycle Special Report for 2005' (G00130115) as where the 1995 chart appears. The chart has 10 labels and phase names written on the curve. Paul Asel's 'one of ten technologies' matches the count. Mullany's label 'Emergent Computing' is 'Emergent Computation' on the chart. rank is the order along the curve, left to right. The chart has no time-to-plateau markers, so every band is null.