Word: users
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...user, of course, but he's also very knowledgeable," Dingman says...
Drafted by Transportation Secretary Samuel Skinner, the blueprint for repairing America's crumbling roads and easing airport congestion is almost silent on how to pay for what it recommends. Where it is specific, the plan proposes new or additional "user fees" and surcharges for air travelers and new authority for states to turn federally financed highways into toll roads. Translation: Bush wants to improve Americans' mobility, but he would prefer that local politicians raise the funds needed to break the transportation gridlock...
...many ways, senior citizens would seem to be perfect candidates for home computing. They have time on their hands and minds that tend to race ahead of their aging bodies. With a computer and telephone hookup, an elderly user who has trouble getting around can visit a library, buy a security, post a letter or run a small business without ever leaving home. But older Americans have been among the most reluctant computer users, according to industry surveys. While some 20% of all U.S. households have home computers, only 9% of adults age 60 to 69 own them -- a figure...
That is beginning to change. Across the U.S., thousands of aging Americans are happily tapping away at keyboards and trading floppy disks, thanks to a new wave of computer-literacy programs designed with the elderly user in mind. The largest of these is SeniorNet, the first national organization dedicated to bringing senior citizens into the information age. Since it was founded at the University of San Francisco in 1986, the nonprofit organization has trained nearly 4,000 of the elderly at 26 sites in the U.S. and Canada, including doctors' offices, retirement homes, senior centers, high schools and colleges...
Until the 1980s the machines were big and bulky, occupying several square feet of floor space. Japanese engineering managed to scale down the faxes for the typical business user. The new fax machines were half the size of a personal computer and could send documents up to 100 times faster than their immediate ancestors...