How 3.6 Zettabytes Of Data Get Consumed

You probably already saw that the average American tears through 34GB of data per person per 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.

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]

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    Sam Brady

    Friday, December 11, 2009 at 10:44 PM

    Its odd that the stats for TV includes DVDs, but movies are a seperate entity. I watch some movies and some TV, however due to extremely late screening of shows in australia, theyre all downloaded so I dont channel surf and probably watch about four hours a week.
    It’d be interesting to see the stats based on age, as I imagine the rate of change for stats for young people would be far higher than that for 40+ who use technology for far less, and probably watch a higher amount of television.

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