A little under one-third of U.S. households have no Internet access and do not plan to get it, with most of the holdouts seeing little use for it in their lives, according to a survey released Friday.
Park Associates, a Dallas-based technology market research firm, said 29 percent of U.S. households, or 31 million homes, do not have Internet access and do not intend to subscribe to an Internet service over the next 12 months.
The second annual National Technology Scan conducted by Park found the main reason potential customers say they do not subscribe to the Internet is because of the low value to their daily lives they perceive rather than concerns over cost.
Forty-four percent of these households say they are not interested in anything on the Internet, versus just 22 percent who say they cannot afford a computer or the cost of Internet service, the survey showed.
Here's a little personal trivia for you. When I went to summer camp as a kid, at Episcopal Camp Stevens in San Diego County, we had organizations of campers called 'Adventure Groups'. Our group was the Mighty Flaming Armadillos, we of course were the brainy weirdos. One group called themselves Double Eye Doubleyou Eye, aka IIWI. They were the slackers. IIWI stands for "I don't know, I don't care, what's the difference, Incorporated". I never forgot IIWI, they tend to show up everywhere.
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