Americans have stopped joining the World Wide Web
Instead of adopting modern communications,
hooking up to the "information superhighway", Americans are pulling off to the
side of the road.
The vast majority of U.S. households that are not online have no interest in the Web, an indication that Internet penetration has stalled, a market research firm said Friday.
A survey of 1,000 U.S. homes showed that about 36 percent of U.S. households were not online, and only 2 percent intended to subscribe to an Internet service this year, according to Parks Associates. The percent of households without Web access extrapolated to 39 million homes.
“We’re starting to hit a wall as far as Internet penetration goes,” John Barrett, director of research at Parks Associates, said. “We’re getting down to the people who just don’t want it.”
Just another predictable result from an insular culture that rejects science, rejects education, rejoices in ignorance and turns its back on participating in the whole world.
Posted: Sat - February 25, 2006 at 06:38 AM