Gartner's business model is something along the lines of "make a prediction about tech $flavour-of-the-month to insecure CTOs with a timespan of about three yea

Gartner's business model is something along the lines of "make a prediction about tech $flavour-of-the-month to insecure CTOs with a timespan of about three years. Three years later, things have moved on and everyone has forgotten their prediction." Whether right or wrong. Apparently you pay good money for these predictions.