The study, done by Zogby International and 463 Communications, also found:

1. 24 percent of Americans say that the Internet can function, for a short time, as a replacement for a significant other.
2. 20 percent are open to “chipping” their own children in order to track their location.
3. 11 percent would be willing to surgically implant a device inside their brains that would allow direct mental access to the Internet
4. Young people find Scarlett Johanson sexier than the iPhone

While the last one is true, and I would like to surgically implant something for direct mental access to the internet, I find it incredibly scary that we are becoming more and more disconnected from the human world, or the fact that we need feel we need to track kids like pets (scary in the fact that parents don’t trust kids, and the rise of child predators).

But the really scary thing is that people feel, we need the government to get involved in the internet. The one thing really important to note is that the people who favor it the most are people over 70, the people who don’t even use the internet, or if they do they use it for the most rudimentary tasks. The number of supporters drastically goes down with age, but it still is scary. The FCC is already attempting to increase regulation (albeit on cable TV), and if people feel that we need it some representative in Congress will make a move to regulation the humping dog videos on Youtube.

Link [Ars Technica]

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