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| wolverine876 wrote:
| It's a very interesting question, but I wonder about some of the
| understanding of specific technologies:
|
| > it's true that many of the Hype Cycle's one hit wonders survive
| today, enjoying minor success or mindshare: Crowdsourcing - 2013,
| HTML5 - 2012, BYOD - 2012, Podcasting -2005
|
| Those technologies have only "minor success or mindshare"? I'd
| say they have overwhelming success and they're now embedded in
| the (computer) culture. The article uses Wikipedia links.
|
| > technologies that seem as poorly considered as parachute pants
| or perms. Just some of the one-hit wonders: ... Folksonomies
|
| Isn't #tagging either folksonomy renamed or a direct descendant?
|
| > Mesh Networks
|
| Aren't those in the 'Emergence' category right now, being
| explored and developed by hackers and some businesses?
| wongarsu wrote:
| Mesh networks were for the longest time an interesting solution
| in search for a problem. The best use case used to be city-wide
| wifi networks, like the German Freifunk [1]. But now IoT brings
| a compelling commercial use case, which is why you now hear
| about e.g. Zigbee (which is also 20 years old)
|
| 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freifunk
| brailsafe wrote:
| Parachute pants and perms are peak fashion right now
| smitty1e wrote:
| Question: if the really good ideas sell themselves (e.g. JSON as
| a data format), then does the presence of a Hype Cycle count
| against the goodness of an idea?
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