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bilby commented on the word hype cycle
"For the past 13 years Gartner has been issuing its annual list of technologies entering, sitting on top or descending through what it calls the 'Hype cycle'. In this curious journey, technologies enter through the technology trigger, move through the peak of inflated expectations, drop down into the trough of disillusionment, perhaps revive up the slope of enlightenment and finally settle down on the plateau of productivity."
- no byline, 'Pie In The Sky', Fast Thinking magazine, Spring 2008.
October 16, 2008