http://paulwallbank.com/2009/12/15/riding-the-hype-cycle/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=riding-the-hype-cycle Society and business in the 21st Century Mon, 21 Mar 2011 01:24:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.3 http://paulwallbank.com/2009/12/15/riding-the-hype-cycle/comment-page-1/#comment-8406 Mon, 21 Mar 2011 01:24:10 +0000 http://paulwallbank.com/?p=549#comment-8406 […] This “tipping point” pattern is typical when we see technological shifts. For various reasons – customer inertia, government regulations, uneven distribution of the new tools – a game changing technology usually takes time to be adopted and usually goes through a process best described by the Gartner Hype Cycle. […]

]]> http://paulwallbank.com/2009/12/15/riding-the-hype-cycle/comment-page-1/#comment-718 Sun, 04 Apr 2010 18:20:09 +0000 http://paulwallbank.com/?p=549#comment-718 […] This week the Internet is alive with tech journalists and Apple fans breathlessly describing how the iPad is going to change business and the world. All of their predictions may well be true, but it’s best holding off buying an iPad until the hype cycle runs its course. […]

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