Forty percent of white households have computers, while they appear in only 19 percent of black and Latino homes (US Department of Commerce) ... When nonwhite high school students were given PCs and Internet access, 46 percent graduated in four years, compared with the normal rate of 41 percent (The Stanton/Heiskell Center) ... This year, Finland became the first country in which revenue from cell phone calls exceeded that of local fixed-line calls (Invest in Finland Bureau) ... Although the average number of TV channels to the home has increased from three to 47 since television was first introduced, the typical couch potato watches only about one-fourth of them (Media Dynamics) ... Interactive television will reach 10 million viewers by 2002 via services like WebTV and digital cable (Forrester Research) ... The wired home has produced a mounting demand for home-office furniture: The market increased 10 percent last year to US$1.2 billion, with 56 percent of products purchased "ready to assemble" (Kalorama Information) ... Forty-eight percent of Americans with Internet access say they sleep less to have more surf-time (Strategis Group) ... Profits from selling music online are expected to jump 15-fold to $1.4 billion in 2002 (Jupiter Communications) ... Corporate employees with Internet access at the office spend 24 percent of their time online doing activities unrelated to work; most check out news, followed by sexually explicit sites (SurfWatch Software) ... Over one-third of primary and secondary schools with Internet access use filtering software (Quality Education Data) ... Nine thousand professional computer programmers in the US are teenagers, up from 5,000 in 1996 (US Department of Labor) ... Despite the fact that Windows 3.1 went from 3 million to 18 million lines of code for Windows 98, computer owners use only 45 percent of an application's features on a regular basis (Standish Group International) ... About half of America's top lawmakers receive daily or weekly tallies of the email sent by their constituents (American University; Bonner & Associates) ... Eighty percent of Americans say the Oklahoma bombing was the decade's most significant event (Roper Starch Worldwide) ... A restaurant special named after Bill Clinton is five times more likely to have gravy than a non-Clinton special (Jericho Communications) ... The average American spends $9.29 a year on digestive aids (Euromonitor)
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