Thursday, January 28, 2010

Wired

Did you notice the article in the Times last week which reported of a new study by the Kaiser Family Foundation showing: The average young American now spends practically every waking minute — except for the time in school — using a smart phone, com- puter, television or other electronic device... Indeed, the 7.5 hours (not including texting or cell phone calls) is more than that:
because so many of them are multitasking — say, surfing the Internet while listening to music — they pack on average nearly 11 hours of media content into that seven and a half hours. Sure makes a body feel analog...! (Pic's from today's Letters section)