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

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  • 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
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