There s an elated Internet and a droopy one. A manic Internet and a depressed Internet. The good news is that there are a zillion people on the Internet. The bad news is that many of them are beginning to loathe it. Manic Internet A recent U.S. Department of Commerce study says that half of US households now have a computer, while 41.5 percent have Internet access, up 15 percent from last year.
Some happy news is that the digital divide is narrowing.
The Pew Internet Project reports that more than 3.5 million African-American adults have connected to the Internet for the first time in the past year, bringing the black online population in the US to 7.5 million. If you think your mailbox is full, you ain t seen nothin yet. The International Data Corporation has predicted that 35 billion e-mails will be sent every day by 2005, up from a mere 10 billion this year. Sales are booming, too. In the past, businesses sold, consumers bought.