Favorited When new ideas boom, bust, then come roaring back: around the U-bend by Bryan Alexander

Not sure if it is a separate pattern, but I recognise the general gist of what Bryan Alexander writes. I suspect that ideas having come slightly before their time, until technological and societal circumstances are more conducive to an idea, is part of this. Thinking of speech technology as an example.

What data would we need to see if these patterns do occur. And where might that data already be available? I do like Bryan’s name for it: Bloom Bust Boom cycles.

Lately I’m thinking about the re-emergence of ideas over time. I’d like to get a better handle on that process, hopefully with a model, and so try to better anticipate when such a thing…

Bryan Alexander