Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Americans Are Info-Junkies

Despite having access to computers and other electronic distractions, Americans on average spend about 60 percent of their information consumption time watching TV or listening to radio. Credit: UCSD

From Live Science:

Americans are known for gorging on food, but we're also gluttons of another sort: A new study finds that the average American consumes more than 34 gigabytes of video, music and words a day—and that's only on our free time.

One byte of information is equivalent to one letter of text. One gigabyte is equal to roughly 8 minutes of high definition video. Thirty-four gigabytes of data would fit on about 7 DVD disks or 1.5 Blu-ray disks.

A mix of old and new media contribute to our daily information diet, the study finds, including TV, radio, books, the Internet, movies, text messages and video games.

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