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New Study on Americans' Expectations of the Net

Posted by michael on from the lowered-expectations dept.

radicalsubversiv writes "A new study from the Pew Internet & American Life Project reports on Americans' expectations about finding information on the Internet. The (unsurprising) results reveal that large portions of the public go to the net first for many kinds of information. '16 percent of the nonusers say they would turn to the Internet first the next time they need health care and government information.' AP story summarizing the results; and the actual report in PDF format."

2 of 67 comments (clear)

  1. Re: A study released Sunday by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    I'm not British. I understood it. You should give Americans more credit. Actually, don't bother. Most Americans *are* uneducated idiots. ;-)

  2. Information can build fortunes by mangu · · Score: 3, Informative

    About 200 years ago, the Rotschild family built its fortune in Europe based on exclusive access to information. The five brothers each had a bank in a major capital and they used pigeons to exchange information among themselves. There is worth, not only in information alone, but also on how quick one can get that information.