Wouldn't want to roll over THAT in my sleep...

For Thursday's class we read Nicholas Carr's article, "The Net is Being Carved Up Into Information Plantations". This article was written May 2007, surprisingly, almost 4 years ago. I decided to look at the blog he keeps and he posted this interesting fact on October 1, 2010.

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OCTOBER 01, 2010

Yesterday, the NPD Group released the results of a survey of iPad owners. The most intriguing finding was that "20 percent of users’ time with the iPad was spent with it in bed." One has to wonder what other sorts of activities are being displaced by the nocturnal stroking of the iPad's highly responsive screen.

I find this fascinating. I don't have an iPad and I don't know anyone that I immediately interact with that has one but my understanding of the iPad is that it's an "on-the-go" product, one that people can substitute for a lap-top or trying to surf the internet on one's cell phone. I don't really see the "on-the-go" small, compact, light use for use in bed. Why not just use a lap-top? I know I see people on the metro every day using iPads so how much time a day are people really spending on their paper thin devices? I may sound like an old-timer when I say this but technology is taking up so much of our time, what happened to human interaction? As parents limit their children's computer, video game, and telephone usage adults need to step up and limit the amount of technology they let into their daily routine.