“If you want to know how people will interact with machines in the future, head for a hospital.
That’s the impression I got from a new report about the future of human-computer interaction from IT analysts Gartner, based in Stamford, Connecticut.
Gartner’s now-classic chart, shown right, shows the rollercoaster of expectations ridden by new technologies: rocketing from obscurity to a peak of overblown hype, then falling into a “trough of disillusionment” before finally becoming mainstream as a tech’s true worth is found.”
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Tom Simonite, NewScientist, 31 August 2009
