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Our lives in digital times

This paper explores the myths and realities surrounding our digital lives, specifically focusing on ICT use, outcomes, and impacts. It presents data on behavioral changes, communication patterns, and the expansion of communities in the digital age. The paper also highlights the economic and social outcomes of ICTs and emphasizes the importance of technological evolution, prices, and adaptation in shaping these outcomes.

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Our lives in digital times

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  1. Our lives in digital times • George Sciadas • Statistics Canada • Presented at Eurostat’s conference • Knowledge Economy: Challenges for Measurement • Luxembourg, December 8, 2005

  2. Myths and realities • From ICT access to ICT use… • …to ICT outcomes and impacts The use of data - ICT data - other data sets - data integration

  3. Myth: The paperless office/society Source: FAO

  4. - Post offices not near extinction- Private couriers proliferate Myth: The death of mail Myth: The end of professional travel - business travel at very high levels- physical gatherings have intensified

  5. Myth: The death of retail

  6. Not the expected(The ceteris paribus assumption doesn’t hold… …all other things are not equal) Changes – yes and many, but what? • Behavioural changes – people and businesses • printing e-mails and on-screen readingcomposition of mailmodes of professional collaboration and human needsclicks, bricks and online shoppingempowered consumers and business adjustments

  7. Fact: people talk on the phone more than ever in history

  8. Fact: people talk on the phone more than ever in history

  9. Fact: high usage of e-mail, SMS and significant time spent on ICTs Source: Statistics Canada

  10. Fact: the extra time spent on new ICTs not matched by reductions in TV viewing Source: Statistics Canada

  11. Fact: the pattern of communications has changed

  12. Fact: the pattern of communications has changed Growth in long distance increases with distance Source: FCC

  13. Fact: the pattern of communications has changed Source: FCC

  14. Fact: the pattern of communications has changed

  15. Wider communities, richer lives? Outcomes People make the choice to expand their associations and move from geographically-defined communitiesto communities of interest. It is not that we are becoming anti-social, it is that we are becoming differently social

  16. busy lives? Expanded ICT use in various capacities, at work and at home Co-tasking, multi-tasking Outcomes Social calls increased 7p.m. – 7 a.m. increased from less than 30% in 2000 to 41% in 2002 more than 40% of volume on weekends, up from 31% only in 2000 (US residential interstate data)

  17. Outcomes Consumer Spending Source: Statistics Canada

  18. Outcomes Consumer Spending

  19. ICTs have numerous outcomes - economic and social outcomes are inter-related • The Information Society is also a ‘talkative’ society Summary inferences • ICTs change behaviour and absorb extra time daily • People choose to expand from geographic communities to communities of interest • People are willing to pay, indicative of deriving utility • Technological evolution, prices, learning/adaptation of usage affect and re-define outcomes

  20. Thank You George SciadasGeorge.Sciadas@statcan.caPaper forthcoming in Connectedness Serieswww.statcan.ca

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