When I want a weather forecast, I get it in streaming video. I can get up to the minute scores on virtually any professional or college game along with real-time statistics. With the click of a mouse, I can get the latest posts from Free Republic any time of day. No having to fuss with busy signals, dropped connections or that aggravating "squealing" noise as you wait to make the connection. You are always on. What's more, I have the broadband shared with my wife's computer and my kid's computers so there is no contention in the house for the Internet anymore. We can all be on at the same time in different parts of the house with no perceptible loss in bandwidth (which is always fast).
People that don't have broadband have no idea what they are missing out on. I used to be one of them. I was one of the ones who kept putting it off saying "Who needs it?"