Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Internet Use is Ubiquitous, for People Up to Age 49
If you have followed adoption trends for consumer products ranging from subscription video to use of mobile phones, texting or social media, you know that adoption skews by age.
For the older forms of media and communications, what happens over time is that the behaviors of the younger age groups become the behaviors of the total population. That is happening with use of the Internet as well.
The only surprise might be the small percentage of people who claim not to use the Internet.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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