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Should Americans go on a data diet?
Another way of looking at it: If 3.6 zettabytes of text could be printed in texts and stacked as tightly as possible across the US, including Alaska, the pile would be 7 feet high.
Note this study shows the amount of information the average American consumes.
Imagine how many gigs geeks process in an average day.
Let's see the data on that!
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Subscribe to commentsRaffi12Jan 9th 2010 4:58PM
Hah, this is so meaningless. Most of that data is multicast anyway.
ScooterGJan 9th 2010 5:31PM
I counter my 34+ gigs consumed with copious amounts of beer and bourbon. Yin yang baby, yin yang
DeoWulfJan 9th 2010 10:32PM
Our brains are awesome. I think they can handle it.
Side note: hasn't writing an article about this only added to the noise?
Bryan PriceJan 10th 2010 11:29AM
That's only 7days on the Comcast bandwidth cap.
jonJan 12th 2010 2:48AM
I think, there is no way this could possibly be accurate, in fact I would have9 to imagine, the amount of data we absorb during a given day is much more, (weather or not we retain it.), We have 5 sense not just hearing and seeing,so where not just processing video and sound, and You can't include txt as data like you would a txt document on a computer as we process it with our eyes, that two would be Video, making for much larger file sizes. not to mention we're not processing in whatever video format they've chosen (probably mpeg no compression) or resolutionneeded to display it on a screen, nor in a letterboxed Ratio, we have peripheal, and even our blury vision, for those who need glases is scanned at a resolution higher than any video can possibly be. I'm starting to ramble, point is we have 5 senses (that we're aware of) Just one of those senses is video, or sight, and that sense alone processes more Bytes of information, than this article says our whole body does. you can't estimate the Data Capacity of the human brain, when compared to the way a computer processes information. It's short sighted, to say that's the amount of information we process, when you don't even take into consideration how we process that information.