If you spent nine hours a day in front of a screen.....how much time would that leave you for face to face communication, sex, eating, taking exercise, travelling and sleeping? I realise that many of these can be combined but nonetheless it is shocking to read (in the ever excellent the Register) that Americans spend nine hours a day watching TV, on the internet or using a mobile.....(according to research from Ball State University).
Apparently 30% of this 9 hours they spend on two devices at the same time! Distraction on a grand, and expensive (in time) scale. What does this do to society is not a question it takes long to ask faced with stuff like this......
I'd also be interested to know if the time spent on the internet really is that - or just time in front of a computer at work....from what I can see here it looks like it is all computer usage on and off line.
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