Mark Dolliver's Takes: It's Not Just for Kids

It’s not yet time to start calling the computer “the idiot box.” But as more and more people get video by streaming it from the Internet, we’re heading that way. By the end of 2006, 58 percent of wired Americans age 12 and up had streamed digital content from the Internet, finds a study by Ipsos Insight. Although young folks were more likely than their elders to have done so, it’s become a mainstream practice for all age cohorts (see chart below).