High-speed Internet has had the greatest technological impact on society over the past decade and is the technology most people say they cannot live without, according to a new poll.
Twenty four percent of 1,950 U.S. adults questioned in the online survey conducted by Zogby International said high-speed Internet had the greatest impact on their lives, followed closely by Facebook at 22 percent and Google with 10 percent.
Of the technologies people say they cannot live without, high-speed Internet came in first at 28 percent and email was second at 18 percent.
When asked what they thought would be the greatest technological advancement in the next year, 24 percent said it would be in home entertainment and 16 percent said it would be in general computing.
Looking ahead to the next decade, 43 percent of those surveyed predicted there would be regular use of stem cells and cloning techniques to create human organs for transplant.
Forty percent said computer chips would be implanted in people to monitor their health, and the same number said robots would be capable of performing manual labor jobs.
I’ll hazard a guess that less than 1% of your sample truly knows what is essential to living.
We’re raising a cohort of obese techno geeks. Shame on us.
People would DIE without internet access. Give me a break-they would have to get off their collective BUTTS and do something useful.
The reference to FACEBOOK is truly saddening.
Its adherents have, in most cases, replaced actual people (and life) with 2 dimensional child-like characters interacting through politically correct and feel-good propaganda (filtered, of course, to be family-friendly and to avoid offense.)
The amount of detail in FACEBOOK suggests too much free time and/or, I fear, an excess of unearned self-esteem.
This is understandable with children and early adolescents, but it bodes ill as it involves only surrounding yourself with persons whom you find “friend-able”, that is, who agree with you! A shallow simulacrum of real life. A lower level of discourse than that found in blue-collar bars.
The final, tangible, damning evidence of this overall decline is the “TWITTER” with its bumper-sticker brevity & logic, lack of structure, bad spelling and even worse English.
Narcissism at its highest level.
Am I the only one that noticed that the survey asking if people could or could not live without the internet was conducted ON THE INTERNET?!? I’m with ‘Get Real’ – Anyone who wants to know what sort of a world we are going to be living in within 30 years, check out the movie ‘Wall-E’. A bunch of Jell-O blobs being pushed around on levitating chairs, eating, sleeping and repeat. Those “health problems” and “Organ Transplants” they speak of in the article will be used simply to make sure that the average human doesn’t fall over dead before he or she turns 30 years old.
Just another example how we as a nation are screwed.
Where have some of you people been for the last 4-5 years… there is a immense amount of business being done over the internet.
Gee thanks for doing this poll and now giving our internet service providers even more reasons to raise their rates.
Cmos: After reading Nicholas Carr’s book about how internet use affects the internal wiring of the brain, I’d say the future’s going to be more like “Idiocracy” than “Wall-E.”
sure they cant….
use high speed to watch tv/movies (commercial tv and cable tv are doomed)
email and cell phones: because we need answers in minutes – goodbye postal service and soon land line phone lines will be history. (if there was a way to send packages over the internet, they would be so much happier.)
I’ll keep my rotary phone for back-up when they break or the weather zaps the power line again.
Congrats to 99.9% of those who posted here. You are spot on.