History

Technology - speed of change
With the speed of change in Information Technology .. this page records changes as they happen (well as much as I can tell!!)

Technology adoption can be described in many ways: Geoffrey Moore proposed the technology adoption model to show the progress of software (Crossing the Chasm, 2009).



Some commentators match the Hype Cycle with the Adoption of Innovation Curve (Slinn, 2009) and as in the diagram below (O'Neill, 2009, Oct 12).



The Hype Cycle Explained
The Hype Cycle



Comparisons


Jacob, C. (2009) Evolution of storage - Go to http://gizmodo.com/5414337/man-weve-come-a-long-way-from-floppies for an enlargement of the diagram.

2015
Gartner's Hype Cycle for 2015

2012
Gartner's Hype Cycle for 2012



2011
Gartner's Hype Cycle for 2011



2010
Gartner's Hype Cycle for 2010



2009
A good measure of technology trends is described by the Gartner's hype cycle (Gartner, 2009). Please read the original page for a discussion, and a discussion on the "hype cycle"(2009, September 29) on wikipedia.


 * Buzz words
 * Cloud Computing, Software as a Service (SAS)
 * Hardware
 * Seagate Freeagent (5.25inch) 1TB Drive (Jan) $340 (Feb) $249
 * Software
 * Google
 * Google wave (Oct). Limited release - by invitation only
 * Chrome (May) version 2 (Sept) Version 3
 * Earth (Feb) V5.0, includes ocean mapping
 * Latitude (Feb)- allows mobile phone users to check their own location on a Google map. The software uses cell phone towers, global positioning systems, or a Wi-Fi connection to find users' locations in the United States and 26 other countries.
 * Microsoft
 * Live updates (Feb) includes SkyDrive 25GB of free online storage - part of cloud computing initiative
 * Internet Explorer 8 (Mar). 2 browser engines.
 * Accessories
 * 2GB mp3/wma/mpg (video) player DSE Neuron (Feb) $99

Predictions

 * Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry demo SixthSense (Mae, & Mistry, 2009) . This demo -- from Pattie Maes' lab at MIT, spearheaded by Pranav Mistry -- was the buzz of TED. It's a wearable device with a projector that paves the way for profound interaction with our environment.

2008

 * Software
 * Adobe (Oct) Creative Studio 4. (Wikipedia, 2009a)
 * Google
 * Chrome (Sep) First Beta (Dec) First stable release . (Wikipedia, 2009b)
 * Street view. (Dec) NZ mapped. (First released in US May 2007).(Wikipedia, 2009c)