Information an average American consumes in a day

By A Bisht

According to a report published by the University of California, San Diego,quoted here, an average American consumes an average of 34 gigabytes of data -- and 100,000 printed or spoken words -- every day, across all forms of media.

The media wise division of the data consumption is as under:

TV___________________________45 percent

Computers/the web_____________27 percent

Radio________________________11 percent

Printed sources________________ 9 percent

Telephone, computer games, movies, and recorded music make up for the remaining. --------