Americans are more information saturated than ever. If you believe the research from the UCSD Global Information Industry Center, the average American soaks up 3.6 zettabytes of information in a single 24 hour period. That’s about 34 gigabytes of new info per day, so artist Robert Vargas turned the numbers into an easily digested infographic. Nothing adds to the information overload quite like more information delivered in a friendly cartoony style!
The amazing part of this new information information is that we spend a lot less time in front of the TV than I had assumed. I figured it’d be over 5 hours, easily. I was amazed at how much more time we spend in front of video game consoles and other computer-type activities, as well as the time spent in front of actual computers.
Personally, I spend a lot less time watching TV and reading than I used to, and a lot more time using the computer to keep me entertained or for working purposes. Maybe I’m an outlier. When I got a computer, I lost most of my interest in television.
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