The average American consumes about 34 gigabytes of information per day
Publication Date:20.12.2009Tags:research, researchers, the Internet
The average American consumes about 34 gigabytes of information per day. Top sources of information content is television, after the computer goes.
The data obtained in the new study scientists at the University of California San Diego, said Ruformator from exile to the newspaper The New York Times.
Total, the researchers calculated, all U.S. households consumed together in 2008, 3.6 zettabayt (zetabayt - a billion trillion bytes).
This includes information obtained from various sources, including television, radio, Internet, text messaging, video games and more.
With regard to time, information on various vzhytok Americans, on average, does the 11.8 hours a day.
The most popular information channel is television - on average, each American consumes him about 4.5 hours a day.
Next on the amount of time spent, is the computer - about 2 o'clock in the day. Other important channels are radio, music, and printing or publishing books.