Your Daily Information Intake: In Megabytes
Most of us agree that there is too much information floating around out there to reasonably manage. But how much textual information do we really take in per day? Alex Iskold tries to answer this question on Read/Write web. He tries to quantify the amount of text people consume from electronic sources each day:
So all the text information I consume daily adds up to 100 KB. Perhaps for some people this number would be two or three times more, but it is unlikely that someone is consuming 10MB of text per day.
