Every year, the Gartner IT consultancy releases its famous "hype curve", which shows where it thinks various emerging technologies are in the usual cycle of swings between overheated expectations, backlashes and ultimate practical application. They think that drones have a lot more hype ahead before the inevitable expectation backlash begins...
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Well I'm not sure how accurate this is....3D printing on the peak of expectations...Really!...well I would of thought they are 10 years out of date at least.....In my opinion 3D printing is surely on the slope of enlightenment.....Now if they had said "additive manufacturing of production airframes" then I would probably agree. Lets hope their prediction for UAV's is more accurate....
Oliver
Where would the Elevation Dock be on that graph?
This is good! Maybe in 3-5 years I can make this my real full time job then! hehe
Interesting. And they predict 5-10 more years before the peak? Man, I can't even imagine what we'll have by that point! What will expectations be? There are already pretty high expectations, I can't imagine what they'll be in another 5 years!
Depending on the field you are looking at smallUAS could be placed at the beginning at the "slope of enlightenment" in my point of view. For years it was told that sUAS will soon monitor traffic, pipelines etc... and of course cheap and for everybody (remembering some years ago). Now we see that there are some applications, esp. 3D mapping that can be done productive.
For other classes/applications the placement could be different, of course...
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