Internet connection

According to the results of a study released by the Pew Internet & American Life Project major part of American consumers do not favor the idea of making affordable high-speed Internet access a government priority.

Pew conducted a survey which polled 2,252 adults nationwide over the phone and asked whether expanding affordable broadband access to everyone in the country should be a top priority for the federal government.

All around us is evidence that we've been living in a decade ruled by 1's and 0's. A household in the US is now 10 times more likely to have a broadband connection than in 2000. And analog cameras, music and media players have become quaint rarities during this past decade, replaced by their increasingly pervasive digital counterparts.

Here's a list that compares key data points from 2000 to 2009, or the latest available figures.