Technology Adoption

47% of adults have high-speed internet connections at home as of early March 2007, up five percentage points from a year earlier.

Adoption of high-speed internet at home grew twice as fast in the year prior to March 2006 than in the same time frame from 2004 to 2005. Middle-income Americans accounted for much of the increase.

In December 2005 24% of adult rural Americans went online at home with high-speed internet connections compared with 39% of adults in urban and suburban areas.

New data about use of computers and the internet in other countries.

This presentation shows recent trends in home broadband adoption and shows why the growth rates of the recent past are not likely to continue. The pool of remaining dial-up users are older, lower income, and less engaged with the internet than dia...

The growth in home high-speed internet adoption, after growing quickly in the past several years, has slowed down and is poised to slow even further.

This slide show presents trends from 2002 to 2004 in adoption of high-speed internet connections at home among Americans living in rural parts of the country.

The presentation provides data on Internet usage for African American and Hispanic individuals.

There was 50% growth in home broadband adoption in the past year, but the torrid growth pace will likely slow.