Comments on: 24: The Unaired 1994 Pilot

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:01:49 +0000

consumer spending on internet connections actually amounts to 0.3% of the typical consumers basket of goods and services

But that's not really the point. Even the lower middle class have richly improved access to information that simply weren't available even to wealthy Americans a decade ago. That's something pretty incredible.

By: spencer

spencer — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:41:11 +0000

Of course you might want to look at the actual data and discover that consumer spending on internet connections actually amounts to 0.3% of the typical consumers basket of goods and services.

By: grampagravy

grampagravy — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:23:47 +0000

Of course the middle class hasn't been stagnant economically. There's way more debt than there was thirty years ago.

By: FireWolf

FireWolf — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 02:46:18 +0000

Hilarious! Thanks for that

By: Steven Taylor

Steven Taylor — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 02:43:10 +0000

Classic stuff--and I have never seen 24--the tech jokes are fantastic.