An observation from conferences in recent months. Lots of people, when describing Cloud computing, reference the Gartner hype curve, and adopt a lightly sneery voice as they say that Cloud has reached the top of that curve. The sneer indicates that the speaker knows that we've seen all this before, and, hey, the world doesn't really change.
I'm starting to come to the conclusion that for most people, when they reference peaking on the hype curve, you might as well read it as final stages of change denial. Whilst some technologies never emerge from the 'trough of disillusionment' that occurs after a peak in hype, many, many do, and then go on to become mainstream. Sneering about something being at the peak of the hype curve is like sneering ast that bus that is hurtling towards you…
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