Hello? Most Americans NOT superempowered IT people
It's never too often, in my opinion, to be reminded that MOST PEOPLE in the United States do not use a lot of the things that most of us at IFTF, and perhaps you, reading this, already take for granted. Accenture's 2009 Consumer Electronics Products and Services Usage Report has this great slide at the very end. Table is below, but note especially that 91% of people spend NO time at all participating in virtual worlds; 83% spend no time talking to people via Skype video or writing a blog or contributing anything else in writing online; and 77% never email from a mobile device.
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I'd push back very slightly
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I'd push back very slightly against the phrasing of the slide caption. It certainly shows that most people do not currently engage in various high tech activities, but there's no context for how this may be changing. That is, Accenture's "not embracing" phrasing implies that the situation is static, but that conclusion isn't supported.
It's pretty widely known at this point that mobile web use has jumped in the last two years. It may be that mobile email is on a similar trajectory; it may be that mobile email is remaining flat, even as web increases. The only way to know is to see how these numbers have changed.