A Quick Look at The 2022 Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technology

Each Year Garter releases ‘The Hype Cycle’ focused on evaluating the progression and impact of technology and themes that impact modern business and economic activities.

A quick analysis of this years Hype Cycle for Emerging Technology reveals:

Accelerated Impact of Artificial Intelligence: My personal belief is that Machine learning & artificial intelligence are tools that augment human endeavour. Introduction of themes such as causal AI lends us to explore relationships beyond correlations to understand cause-effect interactions that help in better prediction of outcomes and a better understanding of how the human mind itself works in arriving at decisions.

Focus on Tech Infra: understanding sources of data and building foundational models that can be re-purposed and customised makes insights and research more accessible for the collective benefit of humanity. Focusing on data governance, data health and infra is paramount in ensuring information processed in building wide application models are secure and unbiased.

Age of Immersive Experiences: Web3, Metaverse and tech that focuses on driving virtual customer experiences and engagement is now in the forefront. Focus on tech that promotes decentralised identities and virtual immersion ushering an entire era of online convenience (through superapps and seamless consumer interactions) and virtual proximity and engagement (AR/VR/virtual currencies)

Here’s the full release in case you’d like to read more:

https://www.gartner.com/en/articles/what-s-new-in-the-2022-gartner-hype-cycle-for-emerging-technologies