36 percent of US Web surfers who spend at least five hours a week online say the Internet has changed their lives (Stanford Institute for the Quantitative Study of Society) ... The income gap between richest and poorest Americans is 39.5 percent greater today than in the late 1970s (Economic Policy Institute, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities) ... 61.5 million people will access the Net via handheld wireless devices by 2003 (International Data Corporation) ... 11 percent of US workers believe their jobs will be replaced by computers in the next three years (John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development) ... 88 percent of executives leaving traditional firms in the last quarter of 1999 took new jobs at dot-coms (Robert Marston & Associates) ... Corporate headhunters will increase budgets for online recruitment by 52 percent over the next four years, cutting funds to newspaper advertising and recruitment agencies by 31 percent (Forrester Research) ... 112,000 fewer personal bankruptcies were declared in 1999 than in the previous year (Consumer Federation of America) ... 26 percent of US adults with household incomes of $100,000 or more have at least 10 credit cards (Standard Register) ... 66 percent of online gamblers bet under $10 a visit; the same group would risk $300 per visit to a casino (Greenfield Online)
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