Trends Glossary

Browse 12 trends terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.

12 Trends Terms

AI Hype
The wave of exaggerated excitement, claims, and marketing around AI technologies, often outpacing what products can actually do reliably. The phrase is common...
Blockchain Hype
The exaggerated excitement, marketing, and speculative enthusiasm that often surrounded blockchain-related products and startups beyond their practical...
Blog Driven Development
The practice of adopting tools, patterns, or architectural ideas mainly because they looked compelling in blog posts rather than because local needs justified...
Cloud Repatriation
The practice of moving workloads from public cloud platforms back to private infrastructure, colocation, or on-premises systems. In tech culture cloud...
Docker All the Things
A joking phrase for applying Docker or containerization to everything, sometimes wisely and sometimes with trend-driven excess. In engineering slang, it...
Fear of Missing Out Tech
The anxiety that you or your company are falling behind because you are not adopting the latest trendy technology.
Future of Work
A broad phrase for how work may change due to technology, remote collaboration, automation, AI, policy, and shifting expectations about labor and management....
Generation Z Tech
A loose phrase for products, platforms, habits, and aesthetics strongly associated with younger digital-native users in Generation Z. In culture discussions,...
Great Resignation
The period of elevated job quitting and career reevaluation that became a major workplace topic in the early 2020s. In culture discussions, the phrase is tied...
Hype Cycle
A model popularized by Gartner describing how new technologies move from inflated expectations to disillusionment and eventually toward productive use. In...
Metaverse
A broad term for interconnected or immersive digital environments where people interact through persistent identities, social spaces, and virtual goods, often...
New Hotness
A joking term for the newest popular tool, framework, platform, or idea that everyone suddenly wants to adopt. It usually carries skepticism about trend cycles...

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