Innovation: Go to hospital to see computing's future - New Scientist
Computer Innovation is our regular column that highlights emerging technological ideas and where they may lead.
If you want to know how people will interact with machines in the future, head for your nearest 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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Computer Innovation is our regular column that highlights emerging technological ideas and where they may lead.
If you want to know how people will interact with machines in the future, head for your nearest 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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