There has always been a tendency to overstate where the
bleeding edge of technology really is in the USA. Here are some
numbers to put to all those fantasies. ;-) 

http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?
pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&cid=1069493486004

"Broadband internet began a few years ago and has reached now
6.9 per cent of the population in America and 2.3 per cent in
the UK. Several countries, most notably South Korea, have
higher penetrations (21.4 per cent)."

"Using mobile phone penetration as an example, Hungary (67.60),
Estonia (65.02), the Slovak Republic (54.36), and Croatia
(53.50) all had higher mobile phone penetration than the United
States (48.81) in 2002. Mobile telephony was only the start;
broadband could be next."

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Some damage to our image of ourselves as technocrats eh? ;-)

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