---
title: "The impact of the internet"
description: "This presentation covers many of the major findings from the Project about the social impact of the internet."
date: "2006-07-28"
authors:
  - name: "Lee Rainie"
    job_title: "Former Director, Internet and Technology Research"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/lee-rainie/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2006/07/28/the-impact-of-the-internet-3/"
categories:
  - "Digital Divide"
  - "Technology Adoption"
tags:
  - "Communities"
  - "Digital Divide"
  - "New Media Ecology"
  - "Technology User Types"
---

# The impact of the internet

This presentation covers many of the major findings from the Project about the social impact of the internet. It includes a discussion about the growth of the internet population, the digital divides that have persisted to this day, the different ways that people use the internet (by gender, by age, and by racial and ethnic group), the technology trends to watch in the future, and the things that organizations can do to tap into the internet revolution.