An interesting report came out today, titled “How much information?”, by the Global Information Industry of the UCSD. It’s clear from their findings that the average American is taking in a tremendous amount of information each and every day. And that will only become more, with more and better access to the web through better connections and applications, at home, at work, everywhere really.
Some numbers:
- The average American consumes 34 gigabytes of data per day
- Americans consume information 12 hours per day on average
- Americans spend on average 2 hours per day on their computer
Questions that spring to mind are: How much is too much? What does the average American do with that information? Does the average American need all that information? Could the average American do something better with their time than taking in all that information? Will there be a point in time that there’s an occurrence of information overload? Hope to find some answers…
Read the report (via CrunchGear)
