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Poll: Most in U.S. embracing new technologies
ATLANTA (CNN) -- Nearly half of all U.S. households have Internet access, and suburbanites lead the way in embracing new home technologies, according to a survey released Tuesday.
Most of the households that can go online have been able to do so for more than one year, but about 27 percent of them first gained access within the past 12 months.
The national poll also found that personal computer ownership has become widespread. Sixty-four percent of the sample said they own a computer.
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"These numbers indicate we're not a nation of technophobes," said Joe Porac of the Emory University Goizueta School of Business, which co-sponsored the survey with telecommunications company BellSouth.
Suburbanites surpass both urbanites and rural dwellers in owning computers and using cellular phones. Compared to urban respondents, rural ones were more likely to have cellular phones but less likely to have computers.
Other results:
- Fewer than 20 percent disagreed with the statement that technology made their lives easier.
- Major factors preventing people from adopting new technology include its complexity and failing to see a need for it, but cost was not cited as a key reason.
- About 76 percent of those between the ages of 35 to 44 have PCs, compared to 42 percent of those 55 or older responding to the survey.
Conducted in March and April 2000 by Berrier Associates, the random telephone sampling of 1,000 individuals has a statistical margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points, according to BellSouth.
The survey was released in connection with the SuperComm conference this week in Atlanta.
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