Emerging Technology

Hunter Gatewood likens early adopters to "happy dogs in a pile of sticks" and says that in order to spread change you need to recruit the "hesitant cat, waiting to see what works."

The internet has changed people's expectations of their relationship with health professionals. One possible next step is the concept of participatory medicine.

The internet and cell phones have become central components of modern family life. Among all household types, the traditional nuclear family has the highest rate of technology usage and ownership.

The majority of employed adults (62%) use the internet or email at their job, and many have cell phones and Blackberries that keep them connected even when they are not at work.

The National Institutes of Health recently gathered a group of consumers and people who study them to discuss how to "chart the next course for NIH communications."

A video of John Horrigan's keynote at the Aspen Summit is now available online.

Follow the link below to the text of John Horrigan's keynote speech to the Progress & Freedom Foundation's Aspen Summit. The Summit's theme was "unlocking innovation" and the speech talks about what user behavior tells us about the current climat...

This year, OneWebDay asks us to think about the internet and participatory democracy. Here are some datapoints on how people use the internet to get unfiltered access to campaign information

July 1 marks the first day of our new two-year grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts.

I always suspect that audience members have as much to share as I have to say. So when Mary Madden and I received an invitation to speak at the Na...