According to US researchers, 800MB of data is produced per year, for each person in the world.
Whoa.
Their study found that information stored on paper, film, magnetic and optical disks has doubled since 1999.
You can blame it on all the digital devices if you like, but the amount of data collected on paper has risen 43% in just the last three years. Perhaps data begets data. The more digital information we produce, leads to more data collected on paper.
The study also showed that the average American adult spends, per month:
- 16.17 hours on the phone a month
- 90 hours of listening to the radio
- 131 hours of watching TV
What about time spent online? It depends on whether or not you include work hours:
- 53% of Americans spend more than 25 hours online a month at home, while spending more than 74 hours at work.
What does all this mean? We are accessing media information 46% of the time.
We are the information generation, aren’t we?
[via BBC News]
Graham says
That’s intense! I never thought that the more data we collect on computers means that we’re collecting more data on paper too! When will people stop printing their emails through Gmail paper already!?
Eric Dye says
Crazy, right!?!
I’m going to cancel my Gmail paper account ASAP!!!
Paul Sanduleac says
I see no problem in the rise of data. The problem is in filtering it.
Eric Dye says
Amen.