The 10 Most Overhyped Technologies In IT
CIO, Monday, July 15th, 2024
CIOs are not immune to infatuation with the promise of emerging tech. Here, IT leaders and analysts share which technologies they believe are primed to underdeliver.
Today's technology is the stuff of yesterday's science fiction, with artificial intelligence, robotics, and spatial computing becoming mainstream after decades of, first, speculation and, then, development.
But are they all delivering as hoped? In some ways, yes; in a lot of ways, no.
It's a typical trend, where expectations about a particular tech exceeds what it can actually do at the moment. Gartner's Hype Cycle calls this stage the 'peak of inflated expectations' - which happens just before disillusionment sets in.