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?
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)
I'd disagree with the "solution in search of a problem" posit. The problem (that the current "Internet" as a whole was becoming dominated by human-hostile entities) was universally recognised but difficult to define... and unfortunately Mesh Networking has not had nearly the pick-up it needed to resolve some of the fundamental problems of its own.
If you use the term HTML5 you’re either selling to a non technical audience, or you don’t actually know what you’re talking about - probably because you bought something with HTML5 in it.
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It's a very interesting question, but I wonder about some of the understanding of specific technologies:
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.
Isn't #tagging either folksonomy renamed or a direct descendant?
Aren't those in the 'Emergence' category right now, being explored and developed by hackers and some businesses?
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
I'd disagree with the "solution in search of a problem" posit. The problem (that the current "Internet" as a whole was becoming dominated by human-hostile entities) was universally recognised but difficult to define... and unfortunately Mesh Networking has not had nearly the pick-up it needed to resolve some of the fundamental problems of its own.
Parachute pants and perms are peak fashion right now
If you use the term HTML5 you’re either selling to a non technical audience, or you don’t actually know what you’re talking about - probably because you bought something with HTML5 in it.
The WHATWG understands HTML5 to refer to its specification. https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#is-this-html5?
or you could just be habituated to it, having been in web development for longer than a few years.