Oh, New Zogby Poll about technology and technology companies.

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We are conducting a survey about technology and technology companies. Your opinions are important. Please take a few minutes to complete the following survey.

1. When you think of the most important companies in the world today, what are the first two or three names that come to mind?

Exxon, Haliburton, Carlyle Group

2. When you think of leading technology companies in the world today, what are the first two or three names that come to mind?

3. When you think of the most important technological innovations in the world today, what are the first two or three things that come to mind?

Nanotechnology, stem cell research

4. If you had to choose only one of the following technology companies, which do you think will be the most likely leader in technology 20 years from now?

None of the above


Please indicate if your overall opinion of each of the following companies is very favorable, somewhat favorable, somewhat unfavorable, or very unfavorable, or you are not familiar enough to form an opinion?

Very favorable Somewhat favorable Somewhat unfavorable Very unfavorable Not familiar Not sure
5. Microsoft
6. Cisco Systems
7. Google
8. Intel
9. Yahoo!
10. IBM
11. HP
12. Apple

13. Can you name for me any companies that you credit with the continued development of the Internet and the Web?

NO, the interent is being destroyed by the government and big corporations.

14. Which of the following companies do you think provides the best business model in how to manage or run a business?

15. Please name two or three companies which you associate with good ethics and responsible social behavior?

Can't name one, not one.


Now for the same group of companies, please rate their corporate citizenship as excellent, good, fair, or poor?

All rated poor.

24. Now some questions about business leaders.

Who do you consider the top business leader in the world today?

They all suck. Greedy Corporate Capitalists.

Now, for each of the following business leaders, please indicate if your overall opinion of their leadership is excellent, good, fair, or poor.


Excellent Good Fair Poor Not familiar Not sure
33. Steve Ballmer
34. John Chambers
35. Larry Page
36. Paul Otellini
37. Terry Semel
38. Samuel Palmisano
39. Mark Hurd
40. Steve Jobs


41. Which of the following regions do you think will drive innovation in the next ten years?

Asia


42. Do you use any of the following products?
(Choose all that apply.)


A Microsoft product
A Linksys product
A Scientific Atlanta product
Google
An Intel product
Yahoo!
An IBM product
An HP product
An Apple product
Not sure


43. Which of the following would you say are the most important technologies in the world right now?
(Choose only ONE.)


Voice over IP
Routing
Wireless connectivity
Video
Not sure
Other-Specify

44. What are the first two or three things that come to mind when you think of networks or networking?

Availability


Networking refers to the ability to connect, share information and communicate across computers and other devices such as blackberries, cell phones and PDAs. Networking is as simple as sending an email or as complex as the system that would run a modern retail operation or health records in a hospital. Networking is pervasive in our lives, touching the way we communicate, the way we collect information and learn and the way we are entertained.

45. Of the following companies, which one do you most think about about when you think about networking?

Google
AT&T
Cisco
Yahoo!
IBM
Microsoft
Not sure
Other-Specify


46. Which one of the following do you consider the greatest challenge facing networks and networking?
(Choose only ONE.)

Cost
Security
Bandwidth
Equal access
Not sure
Other-Specify


47. Which of the following best explains how networking has affected your daily life?

More productive at work
Enables you to join and interact with new communities
Enhances your entertainment experiences (music, movies, sports)
Not sure
Other-Specify





Bored, no longer interested . . .

[skids]

1. Boy, they have a myopic view of "technology"

The whole survey is about information technology, which is currently going next to nowhere fast as it has long ago exceeded the needs of the ordinary person. They probably should have specified IT from the top.

[Mike03]

2. You are so right

The tech sectors are the deadest of the dead. It's hard to understand how this myth persists that tech is hot--except that this pathology is driven by faux investors who dominate the media and are increasingly steering good people who want to invest in their futures towards catastrophe. I hear bad advice almost every day from investment advisors.

[skids]

3. Yeah, I'm painfully correct :-)

Painfully because I'm jobless as a result of the IT tech crash. The only IT tech jobs available are busywork continuously gluing fundamentally broken systems back together again over and over. I cannot bear doing that, especially since any makework like that requires immense amounts of pointless and vicuous workplace politicking. I want to work on something that has a positive impact, like the job I left before the fucktards took over, but even if I were to try the most obvious solution of turning towards education, I'd just be selling people skills with extremely limited economic value.

I have savings, but not enough to get a new bachelor's in something else. Not enough for any education, really, given at the rate this economy is going the only good investments are my own food, shelter, heat and electricity and the longer I can afford those the better.

My only career option it appears is to move out of the sticks, which aside from being displeasurable is not without it's own very real drawbacks -- increased COL and exposure to greater risk when the food riots start.