The Joy of Quiet
nytimes.com posted a very interesting story about The Joy of Quiet.
The author, Pico Iyer, reveals some fascinating facts about modern society, and how we interact within our wired world…
The average office worker today, researchers have found, enjoys no more than three minutes at a time at his or her desk without interruption.
The average American spends at least eight and a half hours a day in front of a screen.
The average American teenager sends or receives 75 text messages a day, though one girl in Sacramento managed to handle an average of 10,000 every 24 hours for a month.
We have more and more ways to communicate, as Henry David Thoreau noted, but less and less to say. Partly because we’re so busy communicating.
Pico Iyer is the author, most recently of “The Man Within My Head.”
Wednesday, January 18th, 2012
Written by: Mike
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