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Study: Many tuning out technology
5/7/2007 | 
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Andrew D. Smith , Dallas Morning News, Business
'"Greg Jones uses more gizmos than George Jetson. The network at his Plano home lets him control the temperature, monitor his back yard and listen to his music from his bedroom, his office at Texas Instruments Inc. or his room at a foreign hotel.
Louis Canelakes lives more like Fred Flintstone. His bustling pub operates without aid from computers, credit card readers or electronic cash registers. And the cellphone – well, don't get him started on the cellphone.
Messrs. Jones and Canelakes inhabit the same physical space but don't really live in the same world, and they are not alone.
A new survey from the Pew Internet & American Life Project shows that while a third of American adults embrace technology for both work and play, fully half the nation shies away from anything fancier than a television remote.
"It was very surprising to see just how small a group uses the full potential of modern information and communication technology and just how large a group hardly uses it at all," said John B. Horrigan, Pew's associate director for research.
"I read and hear so much about people who write blogs and post pictures on Flickr and watch TV on their cellphones; I expected them to be a much larger group than they actually are."
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