Tech Trends 2022: an industry view on the next 12 months

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Welcome to Tech Trends 2022, The Engineer’s annual digital supplement where some of our key commercial partners offer insight and analysis on the technologies that will help shape the year ahead in engineering.

In last year’s edition, we joked that most of us were eagerly looking forward to consigning 2020 to the history books, expecting brighter days ahead for 2021. In reality, this year has also been a struggle for many, although mercifully the vaccine rollout has allowed some semblance of reality to return and the economy to ramp back up to a degree. But Covid continues to dictate the agenda in lots of ways, with labour shortages, supply chain issues, consumer confidence and inflation all posing challenges in engineering and beyond.

New variants notwithstanding, 2022 will hopefully see the fledgling recovery continue, though the challenges outlined above will not be solved overnight. Cautious optimism is the order of the day, and going by the contents of this special edition, there is still plenty to be optimistic about. Covid may have stunted and blunted many things, but innovation has - for the most part - continued to thrive in these testing times.