It’s time to start the 5G hype
We in Gartner like watching hype, and one way to look at Gartner hype cycles is as a progression of risk and knowledge. Early in the life-cycle of every new technology there is very little knowledge about it and so massive risk if you were to invest. This lack of knowledge encourages wild ill-informed marketing and speculation, which always makes for good headlines. However as a technology progresses through the hype cycle we get more knowledge and less risk, and wild speculation is harder because there’s too much concrete information.
