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10/31/2003 Entry: ""
Information Overload
I don't know about you, but I need peace and quiet.I mean the kind of peace and quiet with no radio, phone, internet, music.Or information.A study from the University of California, Berkeley looked at how much information the world is generating and it's growing every year by 30%.
Paper is still popular.
Of the 320 million hours of radio shows only 70 million hours are actually original shows. On TV only 31 million hours of the total 123 million hours of broadcast programmes count as new information.
Digital photos are more popular. Film usage dropped about 9%.
It showed that the average American adult spends 16.17 hours on the phone a month, listens to 90 hours of radio and watches 131 hours of TV. The 53% of the US population that uses the net spends more than 25 hours online a month at home and more than 74 hours on the net at work.
The researchers point out that this means we are accessing information media 46% of the time.
Sometimes it is wise to just walk away and breathe.
Replies:
Have you ever noticed when you turn everything off that your head is noisy for awhile? :^)
Posted by Bene Diction @ 10/31/2003 08:51 PM CST
What's really sad is that when we want to escape the information overload, of any kind, many times it's to another form of information overload. I have a bad habit of retreating to re-runs of re-runs, instead of driving 1/2 hour to the beach or some other source of nature. I'll go to a high school football game tonight and when there is a good play, I'll be looking for the instant replay. Talk about being programed by television and information overload. What ever happened to just enjoying the moment for the moment?
Posted by Ivan The Crank @ 10/31/2003 08:02 PM CST
Funny coincidence that you wrote this... Just yesterday, I was equating spiritual issues to the "thorns" of the "cares of this world." It was time to put down the bible... And I did. And it was good.
Information comes from everywhere. The trick is turning it off when it all starts caving in.
Posted by timsamoff @ 10/31/2003 06:45 PM CST
