Source page: McKinsey & Company
Commentary
The buzz and bucks behind trendsetting tech
Technology | Artificial Intelligence | Sustainability
September 11, 2024 – All this week, our daily charts will focus on technology trends that matter most across industries in 2024. We’ll explore tech and AI advancements, investments, talent demands, and more.
AI advancements are dominating the tech landscape once again, generating significant interest among surveyed organizations. Senior partner Lareina Yee and colleagues note that the launch of ChatGPT and other advancements led to a sevenfold increase in the number of searches and investments in 2023 relative to 2022. Organizations are also putting money into electrification and renewables—$183 billion, according to this year’s trends outlook. A global focus on reaching net-zero emissions will require up to $9.2 trillion in investment and as many as 200 million skilled workers by 2050. Click through the interactive to see more.
To read the report, see “McKinsey Technology Trends Outlook 2024,” July 16, 2024.
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Visual form
Sequence of spider charts, or radial diagrams.
Layout / body structure
The page presents one radar-style chart per slide inside a fifteen-slide sequence, with Prev and Next buttons and a slide counter guiding the reader through the trend set in order.
What is being compared
Each slide compares one technology trend across six dimensions – news, searches, research, patents, equity investment, and talent demand – and the full sequence lets the reader compare how those six dimensions shift from trend to trend.
Measurement system
All six spokes use normalized scores from 0 to 1, so the reader tracks relative strength rather than raw counts, while the six domain labels define what each spoke is measuring.
Visible structure inside the graphic
Every slide is a radial plot with six spokes and an overlaid shape showing how far the trend reaches on each domain, and the slide deck rotates through fifteen separate radar charts instead of stacking all trends into one crowded frame.
Main takeaway from the visual
The shows that the same trend can dominate one kind of attention without leading every other measure: some trends stand out in searches, others in patents or research, and others in talent demand, so interest and investment do not peak in the same place every time.
Key standout values or extremes
The embedded image descriptions point to generative AI as the strongest search-led trend in 2023, applied AI as strongest on research, patents, and news, and next-generation software development as the clearest talent-demand leader, which gives the reader concrete extremes across the six-spoke system.
Controls / sequence, when applicable
The reader steps through fifteen radar charts with Prev and Next, and each step replaces the current trend with the next radial profile while keeping the same six-domain framework for direct comparison.
Companion media, when applicable
There is no separate companion audio or video; the chart is the full visual on this page.