Comments on: Hey, Guess What? People Use The Internet! http://krywosa.com/2009/02/05/hey-guess-what-people-use-the-internet/ Marketing Strategies for Student Success Tue, 01 Nov 2011 18:57:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: insidetimshead http://krywosa.com/2009/02/05/hey-guess-what-people-use-the-internet/#comment-160 Thu, 05 Feb 2009 23:58:37 +0000 http://jesskrywosa.wordpress.com/?p=187#comment-160 And in previous years, companies wondered: “Will everyone use this radio thing?” Then they pondered: “Will everyone purchase a tele-vision?” The power of inertia, of not wanting to change and adapt is strong. But then so is evolution. Ask the dodos. Oh wait — we can’t.

I find research that confounds our expectations more useful than that which reinforces it. Ask Timon of Athens. If he’d listened to the people who said his friends were moochers instead of the flattering of the sycophants, he would have had much more than bitterness left to his name.

Good round, as usual. I’m also totally down with your conclusion. Maybe the Pew Center can retire the question once and for all, eh?

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