Internet is definitely becoming a utility on par with telephone for residential use.
When your power and gas utilites tell you to change your account on their web page and have reduced the number of people handling telephone requests ...
When the phone company is doing the same thing and telling you to get "411" / "192" service from their internet site ...
When your governments are telling you that full information is available on their web site and that they can't service you by telephone except for a limited few hours every day...
When TV stations and newspapers are telling you to go to their web site for the full story ...
These things are telling us that internet is on a par or even more essential than a telephone.
Now, the fact that the web designers for these sites are making them SO content rich that surfing them on dialup is as bad as being put on hold ("Your call will be answered in the order in which it was received") then broadband with speeds of at least 4 to 5 times that of dialup is quickly following suit.
Since the only thing you can count on are death and taxes - It is interesting that the IRS wants you to file online. Tax forms were available from the post office and libraries, but now are exclusively on IRS.gov.
Since the only thing you can count on are death and taxes - It is interesting that the IRS wants you to file online. Tax forms were available from the post office and libraries, but now are exclusively on IRS.gov.
I guess that means the only people filing will be people with internet and computers then. -- Take care,
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