Hindsight · review build · data not yet validated
Chart says "As of July 2016"; press release dated 2016-08-16. Read from the 600x400 chart in the press release. The chart is small: labels and phases are legible, but in the dense lower part of the Innovation Trigger slope some marker symbols could not be matched to labels with certainty, so those bands are null. Phase boundaries were read by eye, not measured. Merged with the digitized positions: x_time, y_expectations, time_to_plateau_code and technology_index added; 8 null bands filled from the digitized markers. Labels and all 26 bands read directly agree with the digitized data.
Smart Dust: innovation trigger, plateau in >10 years
innovation trigger · plateau >10 yrsgartner-hype-cycle-2016-001
4D Printing: innovation trigger, plateau in >10 years
innovation trigger · plateau >10 yrsgartner-hype-cycle-2016-002
General-Purpose Machine Intelligence: innovation trigger, plateau in >10 years
innovation trigger · plateau >10 yrsgartner-hype-cycle-2016-003
802.11ax: innovation trigger, plateau in 5-10 years
Context Brokering: innovation trigger, plateau in 5-10 years
innovation trigger · plateau 5-10 yrsgartner-hype-cycle-2016-005
Neuromorphic Hardware: innovation trigger, plateau in >10 years
innovation trigger · plateau >10 yrsgartner-hype-cycle-2016-006
Data Broker PaaS (dbrPaaS): innovation trigger, plateau in 5-10 years
innovation trigger · plateau 5-10 yrsgartner-hype-cycle-2016-007
Quantum Computing: innovation trigger, plateau in >10 years
innovation trigger · plateau >10 yrsgartner-hype-cycle-2016-008
Human Augmentation: innovation trigger, plateau in >10 years
innovation trigger · plateau >10 yrsgartner-hype-cycle-2016-009
Personal Analytics: innovation trigger, plateau in 5-10 years
innovation trigger · plateau 5-10 yrsgartner-hype-cycle-2016-010
Smart Workspace: innovation trigger, plateau in 5-10 years
innovation trigger · plateau 5-10 yrsgartner-hype-cycle-2016-011
Volumetric Displays: innovation trigger, plateau in >10 years
innovation trigger · plateau >10 yrsgartner-hype-cycle-2016-012
Conversational User Interfaces: innovation trigger, plateau in 5-10 years
innovation trigger · plateau 5-10 yrsgartner-hype-cycle-2016-013
Brain-Computer Interface: innovation trigger, plateau in >10 years
innovation trigger · plateau >10 yrsgartner-hype-cycle-2016-014
Virtual Personal Assistants: innovation trigger, plateau in 5-10 years
innovation trigger · plateau 5-10 yrsgartner-hype-cycle-2016-015
Smart Data Discovery: innovation trigger, plateau in 5-10 years
innovation trigger · plateau 5-10 yrsgartner-hype-cycle-2016-016
Affective Computing: innovation trigger, plateau in 5-10 years
innovation trigger · plateau 5-10 yrsgartner-hype-cycle-2016-017
Commercial UAVs (Drones): innovation trigger, plateau in 5-10 years
innovation trigger · plateau 5-10 yrsgartner-hype-cycle-2016-018
IoT Platform: innovation trigger, plateau in 5-10 years
innovation trigger · plateau 5-10 yrsgartner-hype-cycle-2016-019
Gesture Control Devices: peak, plateau in 5-10 years
peak · plateau 5-10 yrsgartner-hype-cycle-2016-020
Micro Data Centers: peak, plateau in 5-10 years
peak · plateau 5-10 yrsgartner-hype-cycle-2016-021
Smart Robots: peak, plateau in 5-10 years
peak · plateau 5-10 yrsgartner-hype-cycle-2016-022
Connected Home: peak, plateau in 5-10 years
peak · plateau 5-10 yrsgartner-hype-cycle-2016-024
Cognitive Expert Advisors: peak, plateau in 5-10 years
peak · plateau 5-10 yrsgartner-hype-cycle-2016-025
Machine Learning: peak, plateau in 2-5 years
peak · plateau 2-5 yrsgartner-hype-cycle-2016-026
Software-Defined Security: peak, plateau in 5-10 years
peak · plateau 5-10 yrsgartner-hype-cycle-2016-027
Autonomous Vehicles: peak, plateau in >10 years
peak · plateau >10 yrsgartner-hype-cycle-2016-028
Nanotube Electronics: peak, plateau in 5-10 years
peak · plateau 5-10 yrsgartner-hype-cycle-2016-029
Software-Defined Anything (SDx): peak, plateau in 2-5 years
peak · plateau 2-5 yrsgartner-hype-cycle-2016-030
Natural-Language Question Answering: trough, plateau in 2-5 years
trough · plateau 2-5 yrsgartner-hype-cycle-2016-031
Enterprise Taxonomy and Ontology Management: trough, plateau in >10 years
trough · plateau >10 yrsgartner-hype-cycle-2016-032
Augmented Reality: trough, plateau in 5-10 years
trough · plateau 5-10 yrsgartner-hype-cycle-2016-033
Virtual Reality: slope, plateau in 5-10 years
slope · plateau 5-10 yrsgartner-hype-cycle-2016-034