Selected news stories about the Pew Internet Project and articles citing our data.
Surf City, Here She Comes
As Seniors Log On, New Tech Opens Some Quality-of-Life Doors
1/30/2005 | 
Coverage
Annys Shin, Washington Post Staff Writer , The Washington Post, Sunday Business
'"While her peers spend their days sitting in the sunroom downstairs, Layton reads six daily newspapers online, instant-messages her grandson in Maine and downloads bits of animation to attach to e-mails.
Of course, when given the chance, many people use the Internet to gamble and look at porn, not to better themselves as Layton does. But this notion that technology is the key to maintaining not only the health of mature adults -- from the active 65-year-old retiree to the homebound 80-year-old -- but also their social lives and their minds is taking hold in boardrooms, research labs and government agencies.
At first, the folks who made it over the wall didn't bring too many friends along. In 2000, just 15 percent of people over age 65 used the Internet, according to Susannah Fox, director of research for the Pew Internet & American Life Project."
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