This is your brain on the web!!!

from: Reuters

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POSTED: Wednesday, October 24, 2007
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The 463's Sean Garrett tipped me off to another fun poll conducted by his firm in conjunction with Zogby International. The survey of around 10,000 adults found out lots of interesting things that we probably didn't need to know in the first place, such as:

-- Around 11% of respondents said they would be "very likely" or "somewhat likely" to implant a device into their brains that enable them to use their minds to access the Internet if it could be done safely? Aside from the fact that the 463 is spinning this statistic as a low number ("only 11%" they say), who thought up this question?

--Around 25% of respondents think the Internet is a substitute for a significant other, at least for short periods of time.

On a more serious note, the poll also found an uncomfortably high but still minority level of support for government regulations that involve Internet content. Around 29% of the respondents think that TV-type indecency and obscenity regulations should be applied to the Internet and 25% think a ratings system should apply to Internet content."