2017 Digital Future Project - Surveying the Digital Future - The 15

This report marks the completion of the 15th annual study by the Center of the views and behavior of internet users and non-users in the United States. [...] The project looks at the same group of people year after year – The Digital Future Project comprehensively examines the effects of the internet over the course of years on the same group of people. [...] Productivity and the internet at work Does the internet make users more productive at work? In the most current three years of the Digital Future studies, the percentages who said their productivity has stayed the same or improved has remained generally stable. [...] Sixty-six percent of users in the current study said that most or all of the information on the websites they visit regularly is reliable and accurate, down from 69 percent in 2015, a decline for the fourth year in a row, and substantially below the peak of 83 percent in 2007 and 2006. [...] The internet and government regulation Consistently small percentages of respondents in the Digital Future studies said that the government should regulate the internet more than it does now, and that percentage declined in the current study.