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Article: 'Tech elite' a minority, but often forge path: study
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- Chicago Sun-Times
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- November 24, 2003
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If you can't stay away from your e-mail, have an insatiable
appetite for bandwidth, use a personal digital assistant, own a
digital videodisc player and rely on a cell phone, you're part of a
"technology elite" that is blazing a trail for the rest of the U.S.
population.
A study based on a national survey and to be released today by the
Pew Internet and American Life Project concludes, "Although these
ardent technophiles are a minority of the population, their trend-
setting ways often ripple widely in society."
Adds chief researcher John B. Horrigan, "Many people, in time,
wind up following the technological trail cleared by these pioneers."
Pew's survey of 1,677 people paints a picture of ...