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andrewduckerI saw several newspaper articles earlier this week about a survey saying that internet users had stopped being geeks, and were in fact ordinary people (if slightly smarter and richer than average). Apparently this was because internet users were changing.
Now, this may just be me, but surely with any technology, when it first appears the users will be technophiles who don't mind spending their money on cool toys rather than beer? Then, later on, as the technology goes mass market, this audience will be swamped by the vastly more prevalent ordinary people, and thus it'll no longer be the case that the group is made up of glasses-wearing social misfits.
Similarly, if you performed a stufy of LOTR fans a year ago and compare it to a study a year from now, I suspect that the statistics would change considerably. Not because the people changed, but because the two groups would not be comprised of the same people.
Now, this may just be me, but surely with any technology, when it first appears the users will be technophiles who don't mind spending their money on cool toys rather than beer? Then, later on, as the technology goes mass market, this audience will be swamped by the vastly more prevalent ordinary people, and thus it'll no longer be the case that the group is made up of glasses-wearing social misfits.
Similarly, if you performed a stufy of LOTR fans a year ago and compare it to a study a year from now, I suspect that the statistics would change considerably. Not because the people changed, but because the two groups would not be comprised of the same people.
