Poll: Next tech titan not from US; kids more wired than congress

Results of a new poll conducted by Zogby International and 463 Communications suggest that about half of Americans believe China or Japan, not the US, will produce the world's next great tech leader. Here are more excerpts:

# Twenty-one percent believe that “next Bill Gates” will come from the United States while 13 percent believe he or she will come from India.

# (...) 83 percent -- believe that a typical 12-year-old knows more about the Internet than their member of Congress. Republicans (85 percent) and Democrats (86 percent) agreed with each other.

# Two-thirds of Americans believe that soon there will be no place in the world where we won’t be able to access the Internet. Sixty-six percent said that in 10 years they will be able to access the Internet anywhere they are in the world.

# (...) most Americans aren’t quite ready to rely on “citizen videos” for our news just yet. Seventy-percent said they would rather watch the evening news coverage instead of a citizen video report on an event. Though, only one year after YouTube burst onto the scene, fully 25 percent of those 18-49 years old would chose citizen video. Self-described progressives picked citizen video 30 percent of the time, while only 19 percent of those calling themselves conservative did.

More here: Link. Link to PDF of polling results (nationwide phone survey of 1,203 adults in December, 2006). (thanks, Sean Garrett!)