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Hello? Most Americans NOT superempowered IT people
It's never too often, in my opinion, to be reminded that MOST PEOPLE in the United States do not use a lot of the things that most of us at IFTF, and perhaps you, reading this, already take for granted. Accenture's 2009 Consumer Electronics Products and Services Usage Report has this great slide at the very end. Table is below, but note especially that 91% of people spend NO time at all participating in virtual worlds; 83% spend no time talking to people via Skype video or writing a blog or contributing anything else in writing online; and 77% never email from a mobile device.
