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Dispatch, April 22, 2003 Vol 8 No. 31 (660), "More than 9,000 subscribers" |
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| Are You in Control or Is Your Computer? | ||
 Watch Out
for the Yawning Gap... What if I told you that 42% of real
estate professionals do not use the Internet? Would you believe me?
Probably not. I don't think that it's true either. But that's the
percentage of American adults -- a total of 80 million -- that don't
use the Internet, according to a new study by the Pew
Internet Project.
If I told you that the growth of the Internet population has flattened since late 2001, would you believe me? According to Pew's study, that is true with usage hovering between 57% and 61%. So a whole lot of people remain categorized as Net Evaders, Net Dropouts, and Truly Disconnected. As Stewart Alsop writes in the current Fortune, "Computers are so complex, so overlaid with legacies and design glitches and strange, unexplainable features, that we often feel they are in control, rather than us." (Apr 28, 2003) Hey, if technology drives a guru like Alsop crazy, what hope is there for the rest of us? Full Disclosure: Tossing out a five-year-old PhotoShop manual last week inspired this Dispatch. After promising myself for years that "someday" I would learn PhotoShop, I suddenly felt liberated. No more guilt. Yes, I will never learn PhotoShop. Nor will I ever be a gourmet cook. And I'll never be a wood craftsman. Now I can get on with the rest of my life! --Peter Pike |
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