Your Digital Life Will Only Get More Crowded... If You Let It 53
Nerval's Lobster writes "By 2015, Americans' ability to access digital media at home and on mobile devices will raise the average volume of media consumed to the equivalent of nine DVDs worth of data per person, per day – not including whatever media they consume at work. That estimate adds up to 15.5 hours of media use per day per person, which breaks down to 74 gigabytes of data per person and a national, collective total of 8.75 zettabytes, according to a new report. Between 2008 and 2013, Americans grew from watching 11 hours of media per day to 14 hours per day – a growth rate of about 5 percent per year, lead author James E. Short wrote in the report. The increasing number of digital-data consumers and the shift from analog to digital media drove the total volume of data in bytes to grow 18 percent per year. That growth rate 'is less than the capacity to process data, driven by Moore's Law, [of about] 30 percent per year,' he added, 'but is still impressive.' Social media is growing even faster than other options – 28 percent per year, from 6.3 billion hours in 2008 to an estimated 35.2 billion hours in 2015. Companies expecting to catch the attention of either employees or customers will have to do so in the context of an increasingly media-swamped population. Digital data consumption will continue to rise, the SDSC projections estimate, possibly to more than an average of 24 hours per person per day – which is only possible assuming multiple simultaneous data streams running through the minds of Americans watching TV, browsing the Web and texting each other simultaneously, probably to ask why they never have time to just sit and talk any more."
if you let it (Score:5, Funny)
Between 2008 and 2013, Americans grew from watching 11 hours of media per day to 14 hours per day
And also grew from weight 140 pounds to 190 pounds.
Re:if you let it (Score:3, Funny)
What a stupid storyof course your consumption will increase IF YOU LET IT. To quote my niece, "Duh."
That post is 100 bytes long.
In 1995, that would've been the end of it, but here in 2013 we need a high-res mashup of your niece saying "Duh" above a hip hop tune, so it would probably turn out to be 10MB.
Just trying to figure out where all that "progress" is going.