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The Products That Transformed Whole Industries

We interact with so many products and services daily that it's easy to overlook their impact on our lives. Qualtrics serves as a reminder with a timeline of the past few decades, highlighting the most important products and technologies that transformed or even birthed new industries.

The Products That Transformed Whole Industries

Facts and Statistics Show AI’s Global Dominance in Business

Artificial intelligence has taken the business world by storm, with cost-saving mechanisms, automation, and inspiration for fresh ideas. The Qualtrics team presented 25 statistics emphasizing the speed and power with which AI has spread across the business world. There are 70,000 AI companies worldwide, with the most successful earning, on average, $3.48 billion. The U.S. is the home of AI. It hosts the largest number of companies, and they’ve invested the most in the industry. American private investment in AI has reached $109.1 billion. Private companies develop 90% of AI models. Nvidia is the biggest player in the AI industry, the first to exceed $5 trillion in market value. Small businesses in the U.S. have also started using AI. 89% use them in their daily operations, whether it’s for financial management or customer service. Data reveals that AI is entrenched in everyday business practice.

Facts and Statistics Show AI’s Global Dominance in Business

Charting How Office Technology Evolved Over Time

Ooma’s new timeline reminds viewers that office technology didn’t evolve overnight. It presents the work of centuries of problem-solving with innovations building on each other to make office work more accurate, connected, and efficient. From handwritten manuscripts to cloud-based software, the timeline shows the many steps in between. The timeline breaks down several aspects of office technology.

How Office Technology Evolved Over Time

Explore the History of Americans Cutting the Cord

There was a time when landline phones and cable TV were fixtures in every American home, but that moment is fading into history, as we can see in the Ooma article on U.S. cord-cutting statistics. The infographic tells a vivid story in 30 facts about how wireless phones and streaming entertainment have become the new norm. In late 2024, almost 79% of adults and 87% of children lived in a home without landlines. Landline-only households have nearly vanished. Cable TV is on the outs, too. 46% of U.S. households with Internet have canceled cable, while 12% never subscribed to begin with. Most of these households list the cost of cable TV as the reason for cutting the cord. Flexible, on-demand streaming platforms like Netflix and Hulu offer tons of content for less. Americans today enjoy the freedom to watch what they want, when they want, and despite rising fees, they’re still paying less for streaming than for a cable package. It’s no wonder that cable is fading away.

Explore the History of Americans Cutting the Cord infographic

Celebrating Decades of CAD Success

CAD software has made leaps and bounds in its evolution in recent years, growing exponentially since the early days of blueprinting. What once required physical drafting tables, pens, templates and rulers to get the job done can now be done entirely digitally. Early CAD models emerged in the 80s, however, they were largely inaccessible. High costs and location constraints kept CAD from those who really needed it, such as engineers or architects.

Celebrating Decades of CAD Success

How AI Agents are Affecting the World of Healthcare

Although agentic AI was previously less than 1% of enterprise software in healthcare, usage is expected to surge to 33% by 2028. This is largely because of advancements in agentic AI, now able to autonomously complete tasks and work without human input. In healthcare, this means that these agents are able to take care of back-end operations such as insurance verification, prescription refill orders or indexing inbound documents.

How AI Agents are Affecting the World of Healthcare

Explore the 100 Most Popular Uses of AI

The team at Qualtrics compiled a list of the 100 most popular uses of AI with data on how these categories changed in popularity from 2024 to 2025. Among this huge list, we can see some patterns emerge. The most popular use for AI in 2025 is for personal and professional support. Use in this category nearly doubled from 2024 to 2025. People use AI to organize their lives, manage their time and create schedules, prepare for job interviews, plan their workouts, and even manage parenting and emotional situations. Now, some use it to simulate a conversation with deceased loved ones or as a coach to improve confidence. Overall, we can see that AI used as a therapist or counselor is the most popular use case in 2025. This is somewhat surprising and perhaps concerning since generative AI doesn’t actually think or empathize as a human. It’s a predictive text model with responses based on probability. Even so, it seems many users find it helpful to reflect and sort through their thoughts and feelings with the help of AI.

Explore the 100 Most Popular Uses of AI

30 statistics about data breaches

Ooma’s collection of data breach facts and statistics exposes the human element of these cyberattacks. According to their graphic, 55% of data breaches were targeted malicious attacks by humans, while only 22% were due to human error, and 23% were due to system failure. Studies show that Microsoft Office applications suffered 69.1% of app attacks between 2021 and 2023. The software usually became vulnerable after employees clicked suspicious links or opened malicious attachments.

30 statistics about data breaches

Timeline Shows Technological Advances Affecting Internet Speeds

The team at Ooma demonstrates the impact that advancing technology and infrastructure have had on internet speeds over time. They’ve shown us the average speed across the nation each year since the internet was available to the public. These changing speeds reflect the use of different technologies, including dial-up modems, cable, DSL, fiber optics, and wireless technology. The introduction of each over time boosted internet speeds. 

Timeline Shows Technological Advances Affecting Internet Speeds

AI’s Role in the Future of Filmmaking
Artificial intelligence rapidly transforms the movie industry, from script analysis to post-production editing. The Theater Seat Store team explored how AI is already being integrated into various aspects of filmmaking and what this could mean for the industry’s future.

AI’s Role in the Future of Filmmaking

Upskilling AI Literacy and Prompt Engineering infographic

The AI revolution is already well underway, and the market for IT professionals is rapidly changing to reflect this. The majority of business leaders have identified AI skill gaps as needing to be urgently addressed and have claimed that they won’t hire employees without the necessary AI literacy. Prompt engineering is one of the most important skills to meet this requirement. It involves structuring the instructions that are fed to generative AI in a way that is clear, concise, and easily followed. Multiple iterations of a task can be avoided if prompt engineering is performed effectively.

Upskilling AI Literacy and Prompt Engineering infographic

50 Science Fiction Technologies and How Long They Took to Become a Reality infographic

Science fiction has long imagined futuristic technology, often decades or even centuries before it became real. A new graphic from AIPRM highlights just how accurately sci-fi creators predicted groundbreaking innovations. The chart showcases some stunning insights by tracking the time between a technology’s first fictional mention and its real-world development.

50 Science Fiction Technologies and How Long They Took to Become a Reality infographic

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