The New York Times highlights a a report published by the University of California, San Diego claiming that the average American consumes 34GB of content and 100,000 words a day. How is that possible, you ask? It's all about bathing in the data.

This doesn't mean we read 100,000 words a day — it means that 100,000 words cross our eyes and ears in a single 24-hour period. That information comes through various channels, including the television, radio, the Web, text messages and video games.


In fact, the report focuses primarily on our insatiable appetite for information (11.8 hours of information a day fills our gluttonous info-bellies). [NYT]