Things We Can’t Live Without: The List Has Grown in the Past Decade
As Americans navigate increasingly crowded lives, the number of things they say they can’t live without has multiplied in the past decade.
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As Americans navigate increasingly crowded lives, the number of things they say they can’t live without has multiplied in the past decade.
This presentation covers the media and communications environment of today’s teenagers and young adults and how that new environment has affected their expectations and behaviors about media, communication, and creation.
Has the repeal of Sunday blue laws given the Devil a new playground? A pair of economists think so.
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In the nearly 100 years that Americans have been driving cars, the inflation-adjusted price of gasoline has drifted steadily downward, save for two sharp spikes up.
Any nation with more passenger vehicles than licensed drivers has a pretty serious love affair with the automobile. But the romance seems to be cooling off a bit — a casualty of its own intensity.
A modest backlash in attitudes towards legalized gambling has taken hold among an American public that spends more money on more forms of legal gambling now than at any time in the nation’s history.
Internet penetration has now reached 73% for all American adults. Internet users note big improvements in their ability to shop and the way they pursue hobbies and personal interests online.
These edicts represent the collective judgment of the American public when asked to assess the moral dimensions of different kinds of behaviors.
This is a discussion of the eight realities of technology and social experience that are shaping the world of today’s teens and twenty-somethings.
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