Information Overload: Americans Consume 34 GB of Data Daily

Courtesy Mashable!  Wed, 12/09/2009 - 16:55

Binary tunnel of informationThey say the soul weighs 21 grams , and now we have a measurement of the American mind on any given day: 34 gigabytes.

According to a University of California, San Diego, study highlighted by The New York Times , the average American consumes 34 GB worth of content a day, including a whopping 100,000 words of information.

The report clarifies that we don’t necessarily parse a full 100,000 words per day, but that...


 

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