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.