Tech Sentiment Polls, Q1 2022 - Thematic Research

This analysis is based on polls designed to help us understand the current sentiment of the business community towards emerging and established technologies.

Key Highlights

• Most sectors have undergone some form of digitalization, incorporating technologies such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence (AI), and the Internet of Things (IoT) into their daily operations. As a result, between Q4 2021 and Q1 2022, the number of people skeptical about technology's ability to disrupt their industries reduced, and positive sentiment increased. This trend will continue throughout 2022.
• In Q1 2022, cybersecurity was the technology with the highest number of respondents expressing increased positive sentiment. The rise in sophisticated ransomware attacks amid growing geopolitical tensions, notably due to the Russia-Ukraine conflict, made cybersecurity one of the most talked-about technologies across mainstream media and in boardrooms during Q1 2022.
• Blockchain continues to be viewed as the least disruptive technology, but it appears to be slowly winning over respondents. People can see emerging use cases, like digital wallets and non-fungible tokens (NFTs), making headlines and drawing attention from those interested in how the digital economy will develop in the coming years.

Scope

• Our sentiment polls ran between January and April 2022 on GlobalData's Verdict network of B2B websites, which had 70 million unique visitors in the period from December 2020 to April 2022. In total, 1,412 respondents participated in the survey.
• The survey focused on seven technologies: 5G, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, blockchain, cloud computing, cybersecurity, and the Internet of Things.

Reasons to Buy

• This survey gives a unique insight into the views of the business community on emerging and established technologies. The responses reveal which technologies executives view as most disruptive, which they believe to be over-hyped, and how their opinion of them has changed over time.