According to a Department of

According to a Department of Commerce report Internet use is growing. It says 54% of the population is on the Web. I was surprised that half our population still functions without using the Internet. How do they do it?

I would be handicapped when it comes to finding services like doctors, car maintenance, food, and so forth without the directories. I’d feel more isolated from my far flung friends that live outside of Dallas. In the shopping category music, movies and books that I want are much easier to get over the Internet and frequently impossible to get locally. Perhaps most importantly my thinking would be quite provincial compared to all the new ideas stimulated by the english language web sites all over the world that I’ve been to. The free exchange of ideas is probably the single most important thing the Internet brings, and half of America is missing out.