Chart of the Week: The ever-accelerating rate of technology adoption
The World Wide Web, first conceived of 25 years ago this week, has been adopted by American society in record time.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Internet and Technology
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Pew Research: More than two-thirds of Americans are actively engaged with public libraries
A wide-ranging look at Americans’ lives examines the way people use books, technology, and public libraries as part of the social and information landscape in the digital age
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From Distant Admirers to Library Lovers–and beyond
A new typology of Americans’ public engagement with public libraries, which sheds light on broader issues around the relationship between technology, libraries, and information resources in the United States.
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World Wide Web Timeline
A timeline of the major milestones and small moments that have shaped the Web since 1989.
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Predicting the future on the Web’s 25th anniversary
Asked to predict how technology will change over the next decade, hundreds of experts agree that trends now underway will make the internet more important even as it becomes less visible in daily life.
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Statement from Sir Tim Berners-Lee on the 25th Anniversary of the Web
Statement by Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web, on the 25th anniversary of the Web
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Digital Life in 2025
Experts predict the Internet will become ‘like electricity’ — less visible, yet more deeply embedded in people’s lives for good and ill
