Eile­ne Zim­mer­man on get­ting infor­ma­ti­on:
Ame­ri­cans spend a huge amount of time at home recei­ving infor­ma­ti­on, an avera­ge of 11.8 hours per day.
Bytes of infor­ma­ti­on con­su­med by U.S. indi­vi­du­als have grown at 5.4 per­cent annu­al­ly sin­ce 1980, far less than the growth rate of com­pu­ter and infor­ma­ti­on tech­no­lo­gy per­for­mance.
Ame­ri­cans spend 41 per­cent of our infor­ma­ti­on time wat­ching tele­vi­si­on, but TV accounts for less than 35 per­cent of infor­ma­ti­on bytes con­su­med.