Re: UKNM: Re: UKNM Digest V1 #257

[Clay Shirky]

> This is all a bit of a 'mare without the figures, but I'd love to see some

> research on the comparative spending power of the mass of non-internet

> users, contrasted with the spending power of the minority Internet-users.


Don't go there. Those days are over. 


In the US, the average working adult will be online by the end of this

year, and the average adult, period, will be on line by the end of

next year. Treating internet access as some sort of special activity

enjoyed by a minority of the population is short-term thinking - the

internet will reach a majority of the population in Britain by 2001,

and (because its going to consume the telephone network) it will

reach all of Britain by 2005.


-clay 

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