Ups and downs of technology trends by checking the history of the Gartner top 10 strategic technology trends between 2007 and 2020.
Eye-caching (subjective) entries in 2020 :
- AI-driven development
- Smart spaces
- Digital ethics and privacy
| 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Autonomous things | Hyperautomation | AI foundation | AI & advanced machine learning | The device mesh |
| 2 | Augmented analytics | Multiexperience is the new experience | Intelligent apps and analytics | Intelligent apps | Ambient user experience |
| 3 | AI-driven development | Democracy, 2020 style | Intelligent things | Intelligent things | 3D-printing materials |
| 4 | Digital twins | Augmentation gets human | Digital twins | Virtual and augmented reality | Information of everything |
| 5 | Empowered edge | Greater transparency and traceability | Cloud to the edge | Digital twin | Advanced machine learning |
| 6 | Immersive technologies | The empowered edge | Conversational platforms | Blockchain | Autonomous agents and things |
| 7 | Blockchain | The distributed cloud | Immersive experience | Conversational systems | Adaptive security architecture |
| 8 | Smart spaces | Even more autonomous things | Blockchain | Mesh app and service architecture | Advanced systems architecture |
| 9 | Digital ethics and privacy | Towards practical blockchain | Event-driven | Digital technology platforms | Mesh app and service architecture |
| 10 | Quantum computing | Greater AI security | Continuous adaptive risk and trust | Adaptive security architecture | Internet of things architecture and platforms |
| 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Computing everywhere | Mobile device diversity and management | Mobile device battles | Media tablets and beyond | Cloud computing |
| 2 | The Internet of things | Mobile apps and applications | Mobile applications and HTML5 | Mobile-centric applications and interfaces | Mobile applications and media Tablets |
| 3 | 3D printing | The Internet of everything | Personal cloud | Social and contextual user experience | Social communications and collaboration |
| 4 | Advanced, pervasive and invisible analytics | Hybrid cloud and IT as service broker | Enterprise app stores | Application stores and marketplace | Video |
| 5 | Context-rich systems | Cloud/Client | The Internet of everything | The Internet of everything | Next generation analytics |
| 6 | Smart machines | The era of personal cloud | Hybrid IT and cloud computing | Next-generation analytics | Social analytics |
| 7 | Cloud/Client computing | Software-defined anything | Strategic big data | Big data | Context-aware computing |
| 8 | Software-defined applications and infrastructure | Web-scale IT | Actionable analytics | In-memory computing | Storage class memory |
| 9 | Web-scale IT | Smart machines | Mainstream in-memory computing | Extreme low-energy servers | Ubiquitous computing |
| 10 | Risk-based security and self-protection | 3D printing | Integrated ecosystems | Cloud computing | Fabric-based infrastructure and computers |
| 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cloud computing | Virtualisation | Green IT | Open source |
| 2 | Advanced analytics | Cloud computing | Unified communications | Virtualisation |
| 3 | Client computing | Servers - beyond blades | Business process modeling | Service registries and repositories |
| 4 | IT for green | Web-oriented architectures | Metadata management | Business process management suites |
| 5 | Reshaping the data center | Enterprise mashups | Virtualisation 2.0 | Enterprise information management |
| 6 | Social computing | Specialised systems | Mashup & composite apps | Ubiquitous computing |
| 7 | Security - activity monitoring | Social software and social networking | Web platform & WOA | Information access |
| 8 | Flash memory | Unified communications | Computing fabric | Web 2.0 - AJAX rich clients |
| 9 | Virtualisation for availability | Business intelligence | Real world web | Web 2.0 - mashup composite model |
| 10 | Mobile applications | Green IT | Social software | Communities and collective intelligence |
Histogram summarising number of appearances of nouns in the trends.
Word cloud generated by all the nouns appeared in the trends.
Catchy words could be created by using the results, such as “analytics of mobile things”.