Attention academic friends who are supporting, cooperating, and otherwise colluding with my thesis headaches. This story represents my ultimate nightmare: Internet study finished - after 7 years. You see, if a government study costs the taxpayers a million dollars, takes seven years to complete, and is filled with utterly outdated information... what's the problem with me taking a little extra time (say, 6 months), spend a whole lot less than a million dollars, and perhaps come up with a few meaningful tidbits of new knowledge on how people adopt technology? The problem?: technology is not waiting patiently on academic (or governmental) research and continues to change as rapidly as user patterns...if we continue to reference outdated research, then the research itself becomes increasingly useless. And just in case any of my academic advisors are reading this, I promise to finish my thesis in less than 7 years...ok, how about 7 months?