Cryptoassets: The Innovative Investor's Guide to Bitcoin and Beyond: The Innovative Investor's Guide to Bitcoin and Beyond
by Chris Burniske and Jack Tatar · 19 Oct 2017 · 416pp · 106,532 words
Technologies (Gartner is a leading technology research and advisory firm),17 which displays five common stages of technology.18 • Innovation Trigger • Peak of Inflated Expectations • Trough of Disillusionment • Slope of Enlightenment • Plateau of Productivity First is the Innovation Trigger that brings the technology into the world. While not very visible, just as Bitcoin
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many other systems, often requiring a wide-reaching redesign. It also requires retraining of employees and consumers. These difficulties slowly push the technology into the Trough of Disillusionment, as people lament that this technology will never work or is too difficult to deal with. When enough people have given up, but the loyal
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blockchain technology currently falls on Gartner’s Hype Cycle (these things are always easier in retrospect), we would posit that Bitcoin is emerging from the Trough of Disillusionment. At the same time, blockchain technology stripped of native assets (private blockchain) is descending from the Peak of Inflated Expectations, which it reached in the
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DAO hack occurred (which we will discuss in detail in Chapter 5). Cryptoassets beyond bitcoin are at different points between the Innovation Trigger and the Trough of Disillusionment. These differ because they came to life at different points after bitcoin and many are still emerging. Suffice it to say, the promise is great
Ludicrous: The Unvarnished Story of Tesla Motors
by Edward Niedermeyer · 14 Sep 2019 · 328pp · 90,677 words
research and advisory company Gartner released its latest “hype cycle” analysis, which showed that autonomous-drive technology had passed peak hype and was entering the “trough of disillusionment.” Increasingly, the entire goal of a Level 5 vehicle, capable of full autonomy anywhere, was being dismissed in favor of Level 4 vehicles, which operate
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.cnbc.com/2017/05/19/tesla-stock-valuation-driverless-taxi.html 175Gartner released its latest “hype cycle” analysis: Mike Ramsey. “Autonomous Vehicles Fall Into the Trough of Disillusionment . . . But That’s Good.” Forbes, August 14, 2018. https://www.forbes.com/sites/enroute/2018/08/14/autonomous-vehicles-fall-into-the
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-trough-of-disillusionment-but-thats-good/#3b5a3c6e7b5a 176John Krafcik publicly admitted that autonomous vehicles might never work in all locations: Sam Abuelsamid. “Transition to Autonomous Cars Will Take
Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World
by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler · 3 Feb 2015 · 368pp · 96,825 words
initial hype—usually in that gap between deception and disruption on our list of the Six Ds—public sentiment for the technology falls into the trough of disillusionment. And this is where a great many of the technologies discussed in chapter 3 now sit. But when technologies are in the trough, we are
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incredible amount of “change the world” fervor.3 Then the machines actually arrived, and all most people could do was play Pong. This was the trough of disillusionment, cultural deception at its finest. But imagine being able to take your knowledge of what computers can do today back to the early 1980s—what
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opportunities might this have unlocked for you? Hype Cycle Indicators Gartner Hype Cycle Indicators Source: www.gartner.com Recognizing when a technology is exiting the trough of disillusionment and beginning to rise up the slope of enlightenment is critical for entrepreneurs. Reading an exponential curve like a road map, experts watch for a
Green Swans: The Coming Boom in Regenerative Capitalism
by John Elkington · 6 Apr 2020 · 384pp · 93,754 words
media coverage of the gathering tempo of technology and company failures—in contrast to the rapid breakthrough successes expected by employees, customers, and investors. 3.Trough of Disillusionment: Now come the hard times. As early expectations of breakthrough success are dashed, the wider world loses interest. For those businesses that are venture capital
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), 54 Novo Nordisk embrace of, 155, 157, 158–159 placebo buttons, 43–46 recall of concept, 12–16, 29–33, 213 usefulness of, 153, 248 Trough of Disillusionment stage, Gartner Hype Cycle, 174 true value, 58 Trump, Donald, 84, 126–127, 131, 196, 204 Twitter, 168–169 U U-bend, 3–4, 4f
The Data Revolution: Big Data, Open Data, Data Infrastructures and Their Consequences
by Rob Kitchin · 25 Aug 2014
associated boosterism that Gartner’s had already declared by January 2013 that it had moved along the hype cycle from ‘peak of inflated expectation’ to ‘trough of disillusionment’ (Sicular 2013), with some evangelists already declaring ‘big data’ dead as a meaningful term, having become too wideranging and woolly in definition (e.g., de
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_EnterpriseReport_Jan_2011.pdf (last accessed 1 October 2012). Sicular, S. (2013) ‘Big data is falling into the trough of disillusionment’, Gartner, 22 January, http://blogs.gartner.com/svetlana-sicular/big-data-is-falling-into-the-trough-of-disillusionment/ (last accessed 26 February 2013). Siegel, E. (2013) Predictive Analytics. Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Sigala, M. (2005) ‘Integrating
My Start-Up Life: What A
by Ben Casnocha and Marc Benioff · 7 May 2007 · 207pp · 63,071 words
company.” Supplement statement with hand gestures that mimic the volume of a balloon as it is inflated with air. Gartner calls this phase of growth “trough of disillusionment,” but since five-syllable words like “disillusionment” can pose challenges to the avid wine-drinking schmoozer, most of us refer to it as the “long
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Mediocre: Good Is the Enemy of Perfect” contains ideas by Auren Hoffman. Chapter 15.0: The Long, Hard Slog The reference to Gartner, Inc.’s “trough of disillusionment” and the kind of company that gets stuck in the long, hard slog comes from my friend Seth Levine on his blog: http://sethlevine.typepad
Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation
by Byrne Hobart and Tobias Huber · 29 Oct 2024 · 292pp · 106,826 words
wild, the price of one bitcoin rose to $31.90 in June 2011. After that, Bitcoin hit the third phase of the hype cycle, the trough of disillusionment. Its price decreased rapidly before bottoming out in April 2013. This was followed by further price swings, driven less by interest in Bitcoin itself than
Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty
by Vikram Chandra · 7 Nov 2013 · 239pp · 64,812 words
ideal has led many an aspirant to burnout, complete with techie thousand-yard-stare, clinical depression, outbursts of anger, and total disinterest in programming. This trough of disillusionment is so deep that for many, the only way to emerge from it is to leave the industry altogether, which rewards a few with fame
Bitcoin: The Future of Money?
by Dominic Frisby · 1 Nov 2014 · 233pp · 66,446 words
. I suggest that in late 2013 we hit the peak of the hype cycle – the peak of inflated expectations. Now Bitcoin is somewhere in the ‘trough of disillusionment,’ just like the internet in 2001. The price has fallen. There have been thefts. Some of the companies involved have gone bankrupt. The challenge now
The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age
by Robert Wachter · 7 Apr 2015 · 309pp · 114,984 words
commences with the introduction of a new technology. Then the hype begins, with a “peak of inflated expectations” preceding a swift descent into the dreaded “trough of disillusionment.” Some technologies die there; the ones destined to be successful climb the “slope of enlightenment” to reach their final stage: a “plateau of productivity.” The
Junk DNA: A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome
by Nessa Carey · 5 Mar 2015 · 357pp · 98,853 words
We Are Electric: Inside the 200-Year Hunt for Our Body's Bioelectric Code, and What the Future Holds
by Sally Adee · 27 Feb 2023 · 329pp · 101,233 words
Makers
by Chris Anderson · 1 Oct 2012 · 238pp · 73,824 words
Better Buses, Better Cities: How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit
by Steven Higashide · 9 Oct 2019 · 195pp · 52,701 words