Americans Joined at the Hip to Tech | TV, internet and phone junkies

The Register – http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/04/america_media_addiction/print.html

By Lester Haines | Posted in Music and Media

The average US citizen spends an astounding – or alarming, or both – nine hours a day in front of the TV, surfing the internet or jabbering away into his or her mobile, research from Indiana’s Ball State University has shown. However, none of these is apparently enough for-tech addicted Americans, who spend 30 per cent of this “media time” on more than one device simultaneously – presumably scouring eBay for a second-hand PS2 while watching a TV ad for how the latest mobile phone will irrevocably change your life for the better.

The question raised by this addiction to interfacing with technology is, according to the Ball State’s Professor Bob Papper: “What does this mean for society?”