Growing Up Wired; E-biz Looks Younger

It won't be long until the average Internet user isn't so average. As teenagers, a demographic that has little or no memory of life before the Web, grow into adults, the world of e-commerce will expand to levels heretofore unrealized (or dreamed). The grownups of today, whose image of the world is altered by the Web but not hedged by it, belong to a camp that remembers entire days at the mall, long bargain-hunting trips to outlet stores - back in the days when shopping was a planned event, one that required a car and an empty trunk. For us, it's different now, and the Internet offers an alternative, but we feel we might manage without it, all because we remember life before it. Those over 65 find even less use for it; only a third of them use the Internet, says here.") Drag this to your Bookmarks. Add to document.write("Del.icio.us") Yahoo My Web