The average salary for a US high tech employee is $53,000, nearly 80 percent more than in the rest of the private sector (American Electronics Association) ... The Internet economy will top $1 trillion by the end of next year (IDC Research) ... 13 million US households will have free Internet access by 2003 (Jupiter Communications) ... Of the 29 missions to Mars launched by the United States and the USSR/Russia, 16 have failed (NASA) ... Complex setup procedures cause 20 percent of would-be ebanking customers to quit the registration process while establishing a new account (Frederick Schneiders Research) ... American children ages 10 to 17 will spend at least 23 years of their lives on the Internet (The Fortino Group) ... The number of gamers using Net-enabled consoles such as Sega's Dreamcast will surpass the number of online PC gamers by the end of 2002 (Datamonitor) ... If forced to choose between a landline or wireless phone, 60 percent of Americans would opt for the wireless (Insight Research) ... Nearly a third of US Net shoppers use online coupons (NPD Online Research) ... The number of investors trading online has doubled since 1998 (Securities Industry Association) ... 44 percent of Americans believe that Jesus Christ will come back to Earth within the next 50 years (The Pew Research Center)
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