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Pew Study: Consumption of Information Goods and Services in the United States

My bud Mike Rohde spied a tasty research report entitled "Consumption of Information Goods and Services in the United States." The report was produced by the Pew Research Center as part of its Internet & American Life project.

The report is entirely descriptive -- it presents a series of statistics and rough conclusions about the preferences and behavior of Americans with respect to technology (Internet, PDAs, DVD players, computers, etc.). One of the more interesting things is the table shown below, which presents the percentage of respondents who said it would be "very hard" to give up each specific technology.

OK, so who are these 26% of the "Young Tech Elites" who don't think it would be very hard to give up the Internet? I think they may just have to have their YTE membership cards revoked.

Also, what about me? By age, I should be in the "Wired Gen-Xers" group, but by my actions, I should be classified in the "Young Tech Elite" -- so which one do I belong in? That's what I hate about these non-scientific surveys: they end up being vague and less helpful than what one might hope. Oh, well, at least they used up some of that government funding.