This report is based on polls designed to help us understand the current sentiment of the business community toward emerging and established technologies.
Report Scope
- Our sentiment polls ran between January and March 2026 on the analyst's Verdict network of B2B websites, which had 11.4 million user sessions in Q1 2026. In total, 1,761 respondents participated in the survey.
- The survey focused on seven technologies: artificial intelligence, augmented reality, cloud computing, cybersecurity, the Internet of Things, the metaverse, and robotics.
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.
Table of Contents
- About our tech sentiment polls
- Executive summary
- Level of disruption
- Disruption timelines
- Hype vs. substance
- Reasons for tech adoption
- Investment in digital transformation
- AI adoption
- Job categories impacted by AI
- Sentiment polling methodology
- Report authors
- Thematic Research Methodology
