Another one of Abram s fears is the widespread belief that education will cure everything. Citing the proliferation of self-flush toilets in airports, malls, and other public spaces, he said, We can t teach the population of the world to consistently flush a toilet, and we think we re going to teach them Boolean logic. Only 25 percent of the population are text-based learners, Abram said. We need to get better at understanding how the rest of the world learns. There s a reason porno works so well.
Some people learn by pictures.
Some institutions have even banned Napster because of the bandwidth toll it exacts. Nonetheless, digital audio and video are here to stay. More and more people are moving to cable modem and ASDL connections to the Internet. And if you re using anything slower than a 56-K modem, Breeding said, you re using dead technology. Ulla de Stricker said technology doesn t worry her.