{"id":4385,"date":"2012-11-13T10:57:55","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T17:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disruptionblog.com\/?p=4385"},"modified":"2012-11-13T10:57:55","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T17:57:55","slug":"1-in-5-americans-consider-themselves-early-tech-adopters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/2012\/11\/13\/1-in-5-americans-consider-themselves-early-tech-adopters\/","title":{"rendered":"1 in 5 Americans Consider Themselves Early Tech Adopters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While 19% of Americans are eager to be among the first to try new technology products and services, the remaining 81% prefer to wait for those products and services to catch on, according to November 2012 findings from Ipsos. This puts Americans well below the global average of 25% who prefer to be early adopters. Predictably, younger Americans are the most avid early adopters.24% of those under aged 18-35 want to be first in line, but the 35-49 age group is not far behind, at 22%. Just 12% of the 50-64 segment consider themselves rapid adopters.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketingcharts.com\/wp\/topics\/demographics\/1-in-5-americans-consider-themselves-early-tech-adopters-24707\/?utm_campaign=newsletter&amp;utm_source=mc&amp;utm_medium=textlink\">1 in 5 Americans Consider Themselves Early Tech Adopters<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While 19% of Americans are eager to be among the first to try new technology products and services, the remaining 81% prefer to wait for those products and services to catch on, according to November 2012 findings from Ipsos. This puts Americans well below the global average of 25% who prefer to be early adopters. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/2012\/11\/13\/1-in-5-americans-consider-themselves-early-tech-adopters\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">1 in 5 Americans Consider Themselves Early Tech Adopters<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerolic.net\/c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}