Gartner’s 2009 and 2010 Hype Cycles

Many of you will be familiar with the Gartner Group’s annual Hype Cycle Curve. Governments, cities, large education institutions, school boards and top 1000 companies use these as part of their planning processes.

Here’s the latest one for 2010:

Here’s what it looked like in 2009:

For some discussion of this graph, see ReadWriteWeb’s posting below.

Gartner’s Newest Hype Cycle: Discuss

I love to review these and compare them to my own opinions and viewpoints on what the impact on libraries, education, consumers and regular life might be.

Stephen