Re Willard's Uncapher's post: "The report obviously sticks to a rather instrumentalist view of the Internet, tailored to e-commerce, and doesn't appear to venture, if the pre-reports are accurate, to raising issues of surveillance, sharing of data, encryption, and other such aspects of Net use." Seems there is now a constant stream of cyber/Internet tracking studies (Pew, NTIA, UCLA, etc.) with a (and a growing enterprise for academics to add to this) available that focus mostly on household research with little attention to questions related to institutional disadvantage, e.g., national surveys/tracking studies (census not random sample studies) on libraries, schools, etc. where the policy remedies are focused (e.g., e-rate)? Also, these studies are so absent 'context' that it begs the question: why are Internet researchers focusing on this? Where's the beef? Soapbox here, but does it not bother anyone that there is so much money/effort going into such tracking studies? To what end? I'll risk posing the 'so what' question to get some discussion going. B. Lentz, UTAustin