The Gartner hype cycle plots technologies on curve from emergence to “peak of inflated expectations” to the “trough of disillusionment” and finally arriving at the “plateau of productivity”. For example, in 2014, they had quantum computing in early emergence, the “internet of things” arriving at the peak of expectations, big data crashing into the trough, virtual reality beginning its assent to the plateau, and speech recognition arriving on the plateau.