Whether you blame it on Twitter, texts or the inability to make a phone call on a touchscreen phone, the US is moving away from voice calls, with the average length of a call falling dramatically in the last year.
President Obama, no stranger to critical commentary on the Xbox 360 and video games, has turned his sights on the iPad, arguing in a Hampton University commencement address that the device turns information into a “distraction”.
As part of a special report on the state of couch potatoes in the year 2010, the Economist collected data on perceived versus actual media consumption. People are in denial about their TV addictions and overconfident in their YouTube cool.
