Survey: Technology Not As Advanced
Nearly thirty-three percent of Americans believed there would be more technological advances by the year 2010 then there actually have been. Even with inventions like GPS, BlackBerry, the Web, and Twitter, many Americans are disappointed about how far we have come.
According to the Zogby International survey of more than 3,000 adults in the United States, many were far from excited over the advances made in technology by the start of the new decade.
In a statement made by Zogby, they said that “the age group most likely to be disappointed with the current level of technological advancement are 35 to 54-year-olds (36 percent).”
The survey also showed that 21 percent of adults thought we were more technologically advanced than they believed we would be by 2010, while another 37 percent thought technology is right where it should be.
A third of people over the age of 70 thought technology was more advanced then they believed it would be. Adults between 18 and 30 years of age are less likely than older generations to say that technology has exceeded their expectations.
Not surprisingly, men are more likely than women to say they thought there would have been greater advances by 2010. Many men think we would been more like the Jetsons by the new decade than we currently are.
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