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Gartner Hype Cycle For Emerging

Technologies, 2016 Adds Blockchain &
Machine Learning For First Time
Gartner added 16 new technologies to
the Hype Cycle this year, including
blockchain, machine learning, general
purpose machine intelligence, smart
workspace for the first time.
Smart machine technologies will be
the most disruptive class of
innovations over the next 10 years
due to their computational power,
scalability in analyzing large-scale
data sets, and rapid advances in
neural networks.
Gartner clients are seeing machine
learning deliver benefits, scale across
their enterprises, and create high
expectations of future value which
contribute to its position on the Hype
Cycle this year.

The latest Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging

Technologies illustrates how quickly technology
innovations have the potential to redefine buyer,
supplier and customer relationships for any
business. Gartner added 16 new technologies to
the Hype Cycle this year, including blockchain,
machine learning, general purpose machine
intelligence, smart workspace in addition to many
others.
Gartner identifies transparently immersive
experiences, the perceptual smart machine age,
and the platform revolution as three overarching
trends that have the most potential to reshape
business models, and provide enterprises with
access to emerging markets and ecosystems. The
Hype Cycle is based on an assessment of the
market hype, maturity, business benefit and
future direction of more than 2,000 technologies,
grouped into 11 topic areas.
The Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2016
is shown below:

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Key takeaways from the Hype Cycle include the

following:
16 new technologies included in
the Hype Cycle for the first time
this year. These technologies include
4D Printing, Blockchain, GeneralPurpose Machine Intelligence,
802.11ax, Context Brokering,
Neuromorphic Hardware, Data
Broker PaaS (dbrPaaS), Personal
Analytics, Smart Workspace, Smart
Data Discovery, Commercial UAVs
(Drones), Connected Home, Machine
Learning, Nanotube Electronics,
Software-Defined Anything (SDx),
and Enterprise Taxonomy and
Ontology Management,
Immersive experiences will
become more intelligent and
contextually aware, enabling
greater productivity and
Technologies enabling transparently
immersive experiences include 4D
Printing, Brain-Computer Interface,
Human Augmentation, Volumetric
Displays, Affective Computing,
Connected Home, Nanotube
Electronics, Augmented Reality,
Virtual Reality and Gesture Control
Devices.
Smart machine technologies will
revolutionize manufacturing
and its related industries. The
core technologies Gartner sees
leading this revolution include the
following: Smart Dust, Machine
Learning, Virtual Personal Assistants,
Cognitive Expert Advisors, Smart
Data Discovery, Smart Workspace,
Conversational User Interfaces, Smart
Robots, Commercial UAVs (Drones),
Autonomous Vehicles, NaturalLanguage Question Answering,
Personal Analytics, Enterprise
Taxonomy and Ontology
Management, Data Broker PaaS
(dbrPaaS), and Context Brokering.

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Emerging technologies are

enabling entirely new business
models, driving a Platform
Revolution. Platform-enabling
technologies making new business
models possible include
Neuromorphic Hardware, Quantum
Computing, Blockchain, IoT Platform,
Software-Defined Security and
Software-Defined Anything (SDx).
14 technologies were taken off
the Hype Cycle this year
including Hybrid Cloud
Computing, Consumer 3D
Printing, and Enterprise 3D
Printing. Additional technologies
removed from the Hype Cycle this
year include 3D Bioprinting Systems
for Organ Transplant, Advanced
Analytics With Self-Service Delivery,
Bioacoustic Sensing, Citizen Data
Science, Digital Dexterity, Digital
Security, Internet of Things,
Neurobusiness, People-Literate
Technology, Speech-to-Speech
Translation and Wearables.

Source: Gartners 2016 Hype Cycle for Emerging

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