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Nearly half of American adults believe incorrectly that they would risk electrocution by using a portable phone while in the bathtub.
``We are technologically illiterate,'' an expert committee set up by the National Academy of Engineering and the National Research Council said Thursday. ``As a society, we are not even fully aware of or conversant with the technologies we use every day.''
The panel met at the National Academies to discuss a Gallup poll used in its two-year study of what to do about how little Americans know about technology.