These imaginative and technically adept consumers spot a need and invent a solution, often changing whole industries, from sports to software.
Mr. Romney and his wife, Ann, proved themselves adept consumers of pop culture, disclosing that "Modern Family" is their favorite television show and that Mr. Romney prefers Snooki (of "Jersey Shore") to Honey Boo Boo (of the reality TV show).
The Romneys proved themselves adept consumers of pop culture, disclosing that "Modern Family" is their favorite television show, and that Mr. Romney prefers Snooki (of "Jersey Shore" fame) to Honey Boo Boo (of reality TV, child beauty pageant fame).
It is unclear that companies like Facebook and Google, left to themselves, could have swayed members of Congress or the White House without using the Internet to marshal opposition from technologists, entrepreneurs and computer-adept consumers.
However, late capitalism has proved very adept at following consumers as they move away from straightforward acquisition.
The company is also proving adept at hooking consumers on its exclusive name brands, like its new Dana Buchman line, which account for 44percentt of Kohl's sales.
No studio is more adept at selling consumers multiple copies of the same film than Disney, and no single innovation has inflated the company's profits more cunningly than the sing-along release.
The telephone companies say that local cable advertising, from the standpoint of price and the audience reached, could be one of the most effective ways to promote D.S.L. to the relatively young, technically adept and affluent consumers most likely to sign up for high-speed Internet access.
And in the United States, Apple, Google and Amazon have shown themselves adept at producing breakthrough consumer products, while pending legislation would allow them to import more foreign engineers at a lower cost than hiring and training domestic engineers.
