This dataset contains questions about usage and attitudes towards Information and Communication Technologies. It served as the basis for the May 2007 “Typology of Information and Communication Technology Users”, and was also used in the “Home Broadband Adoption 2006” report. This data set contains all questions asked in addition to basic demographic, internet use and broadband-at-home information.
Broadband is the norm among bloggers, as is going online several times each day. A majority of bloggers (79%) have a high-speed connection to the internet at home and more than half are between 18 and 29 years old. By comparison, 62% of adult internet users have broadband at home and about one in five […]
Predictions inspire lively discussion about the future, and help stakeholders prepare for adjustments associated with technological change. Those who think about the future are best poised to influence it. The visionary 20th century engineer, mathematician and architect R. Buckminster Fuller argued that, “We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.” One […]
A selection of biographical data about some of the leading internet stakeholders who participated in the survey and were willing to take credit for their remarks. This collection of more than 250 brief biographies describing some of the 2006 Survey respondents includes data about some of the top participants who were willing to be quoted […]
Predictions and Reactions Prediction: By the year 2020, virtual reality on the internet will come to allow more productivity from most people in technologically- communities than working in the ‘real world.’ But the attractive nature of virtual-reality worlds will also lead to serious addiction problems for many, as we lose people to alternate realities. An […]
Newcomers to the world of work may find that their bosses are strangers in the digital world
Prediction and Reactions Prediction: In 2020, networked communications have leveled the world into one big political, social, and economic space in which people everywhere can meet and have verbal and visual exchanges regularly, face-to-face, over the internet. English will be so indispensable in communicating that it displaces some languages. An extended collection hundreds of written […]
