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US's Slow Embrace of Information Technology

Posted by kdawson on from the it's-Windows-isn't-it dept.

mattnyc99 writes "To motivate his new column, Popular Mechanics' Glenn Derene takes research data from a discussion here of his last column. He analyzes a new study released this week — revealing that fully 49 percent of Americans 'only occasionally use modern gadgetry' — to compare the rise of the PC with that of the TV and ask a big question: What keeps the most important and powerful communication tool since the telephone from being universally embraced?"

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  1. Re:I'm going to go with... by Durrill · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I was going to say "Evangelicals". But, it would seem that both our opinions are closely related. According to them, science never proved anything. Despite the fact that I'm writing this response on a computer.

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  2. Edumacation by 955301 · · Score: 0, Flamebait


    http://www.edweek.org/media/2006/06/16/dcfinal_1s. jpg

    Don't credit the midwest too much - the majority of the population in the US is along the east and west coast. Having said that, also keep in mind that the US grade school education system SUCKS.

    http://www.ratemyteachers.com/

    I live in Georgia:

    http://www.edweek.org/media/2006/06/19/41s-pipelin e-c2s.jpg

    The fact that I'm having a child in this state scares the hell out of me.

    My point is, using a computer, earning enough to have discretionary spending money and finding any value in a java enabled mobile phone versus a new car requires some degree of intelligence. This is an uphill battle for most people in the US, who are regarded as "resources" by anyone with an MBA and as the unwashed masses by anyone doing very well.

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  3. It's stupidity, stupid by Pig+Hogger · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    It's the stupidity, stupid.

    When a sizeable portion of people believe the earth is 6000 years old (if not flat),

    when a sizeable portion of people go to church every sunday,

    when a sizeable portion of people think that condoms are evil,

    when a sizeable portion of people think that atheists are the tool of satan,

    when a sizeable portion of people think that guns reduce crime,

    it means that the general level of stupidity is too high to have everyone to be able to use a computer, because computers are logic.