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retroremakes
December 10th, 2009, 23:30
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/4/2009/12/500x_evolutionofreading.jpg (http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/4/2009/12/evolutionofreading.jpg) You probably already saw that the average American tears through 34GB of data per person per day (http://gizmodo.com/5422324/each-american-consumes-34gb-of-data-a-day). Here's how the media has evolved these last few decades (sorry print), and below a way to compare your consumption with Joe Average.
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/4/2009/12/500x_usdataconsumption.jpg (http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/4/2009/12/usdataconsumption.jpg)
This chart breaks down each activity by hours, bytes, and words for the total population, average per user, and average per American in 2008. There's a lot to process here, but my first reaction is: that many people still watch TV in standard def?
*A 1 with 21 zeros after it [UC-San Diego (http://hmi.ucsd.edu/howmuchinfo.php)]


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