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Benjamin Jörissen

The American Diet: 34 Gigabytes a Day - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Benjamin Jörissen on 10 Dec 09 - Cached
  • A report published Wednesday by the University of California, San Diego, calculates that American households collectively consumed 3.6 zettabytes of information in 2008.
  • So where does all this information we consume come from? Everywhere, it turns out. The report suggests the average American consumes 34 gigabytes of content and 100,000 words of information in a single day.
  • it means that 100,000 words cross our eyes and ears in a single 24-hour period
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  • our voracious appetite for information and entertainment
  • The study suggests that, on average, most Americans consume 11.8 hours of information a day.
  • Most of this time is spent in front of some sort of screen watching TV-related content
  • computer, which we interact with for about two hours a day
  • Most of these experiences happen simultaneously
  • a huge increase in the number of bytes we consume related to video games
  • Gaming saw the biggest leap in the number of bytes we consume and the amount of time devoted to this platform.” This isn’t just first-person shooting games but also includes lots of analytical games like Bookworm, Tetris as well as social networking games.
  • if you add up the amount of time people spend surfing the Web, they are actually reading more than ever
  • from 1980 to 2008, the number of bytes we consume has increased 6 percent each year, the researchers said, adding up to a 350 percent increase over 28 years
Benjamin Jörissen

Alexander Kluge: Gärten anlegen im Daten-Tsunami - Digitales Denken - Feuille... - 0 views

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Internet distraction desubjektivierung

shared by Benjamin Jörissen on 31 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Nicht mein Denken, sondern die Formwelt, in der ich es äußere, ändert sich.
  • Neben der Daten-Wirklichkeit gibt es eine zweite und derer sind wir Herr. Für die Utopie, den „Keinen Ort“, können wir nicht wirken, für die Enklave, die Heterotopie, aber schon.
  • Durch das Internet - die Teilnehmerzahlen sind ja sensationell - ist eine Verbindung von Menschen möglich, die fast genauso stark ist wie die Zunahme der Repräsentanz des Objektiven. Man muss also vor dem Internet keine Angst haben.
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  • Wir müssen Landkarten der Subjektivität gegen das Allwissen des GPS halten. Nach demselben Schema können Sie das Internet betrachten.
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