(2010-07-13) Youth No Landlines

Stowe Boyd notes a post by Tim Kastelle describing a David Lazer talk: Lazer asked how many people there were under 30 years old – about 40% of the people raised their hands. Then he asked how many of those people had a Land Line – and not one of them did. He repeated the exercise with people over 45, and about 2/3 of us still have a landline. The point that he was making is that a lot of the people making pronouncements about the Internet are over 45 – and our experiences of the internet and technology is likely to be very different from those of the majority of people using the net these days.

I Commented: It will be interesting to see what happens as they get married and have kids. Having a shared/space-fixed number/line can be handy. Though I suppose you could end up with some sort of VoIP-phone that has a built-in computer or works with a device like a Chumby...