Innovations: who needs them?

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Everything new that comes into our lives is perceived with a slight touch of mistrust and skepticism. Time passes - the innovation becomes an integral part of reality, moving into the category of the ordinary, the natural. Only time determines how viable this or that innovation was. Or, as Hermann Hesse wrote, the essence of each thing is in its present.

our reality at the turn of the millennium turned out to be woven from such innovations, the main supplier of which was information technology: cell phones, paging and trunking communications, voice mail boxes, cards for paying for poland whatsapp data services, bank cards, e-mail and the Internet, e-commerce... I dare to assume that the speed of the appearance of high-tech children around the world exceeds the speed of the most hard-working typist typing a list of innovations on paper. By the standards of history, all these things have only just come to us and are still on the threshold, but despite this, we have already managed to accept many of them and include them in the list of our habits.

These questions were the subject of a study conducted by Gallup SPb in October 2000. The study was conducted by telephone survey, and 1007 people over 18 years of age took part in it. The main objective of the study was to determine the attitude of city residents to innovations in the field of telecommunications and payment methods (we leave the latter outside the scope of this article).

The survey participants were asked about their attitude to innovations and asked to rate them on a five-point scale (where one was taken as a negative attitude, 3 - indifference, 5 - a positive attitude to the emergence of innovations). When analyzing the average ratings for individual innovations, one can conclude that the population of St. Petersburg favorably accepts the discussed innovations and speaks of a reserved-positive attitude. The average score in almost all cases fluctuated around 4. In order to identify the leaders among these things, we analyzed only the positive answers separately (the highest is the fifth point). The results are presented in Graph 1.