Roger Bohn, James Short, and "How Much information?" featured on Wired website, NPR Science Friday, and more
01/06/2010
Study: Rumors of Written-Word Death Greatly Exaggerated
Wired 12/28/09 3:42 PM
By Eliot Van Buskirk
Conventional wisdom holds that YouTube, videogames, cable TV and iPods have turned us away from the written word. Glowing streams of visual delights replaced paper and longhand letters shrank to bite-sized Facebook status updates, the theory held.
Conventional wisdom, in this case, is wrong.
Click here to read the article.
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Our Daily Diet of Data (broadcast Friday, December 18th, 2009)
Science Friday – 12/16/09 9:57 P
You read the paper, listen to the radio, play a few games on your mobile phone, and head to the movies after work. In each step, you're using information. So how much data does the average American consume in an ordinary day? 34 gigabytes of data and 100,500 words, according to a recent study -- and that doesn't include data involved in your daily work. We'll talk with one of the authors of the report on our daily diet of data.
Click to listen to the Ira Flatow interview with Roger Bohn.
Related Links
How Much Information? 2009 website
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