Here is an interesting statistic that I just came across:
Employed fathers spend an average of 2.3 hours per day caring for and doing things with their children and employed mothers spend 3.2 hours per day with their children.
Now compare that with the 6 hours and 21 minutes per day average that Generation M kids are spending with computers, video games, TV, MP3 players, etc.
At a high-tech conference in the UK, a speaker suggests that people need to unplug and slow down in a world that was stuck in fast-forward, reports the BBC in "Time to switch off and slow down".
Across the world, people are slowing down, and they are finding that they "eat better, make love better, exercise better, work better".
And Mr Honoré told a crowd flush with technology that they needed to rediscover the off button.
We found this article through the Question Technology blog.
Only 16 days left 'til PC-Turnoff Week!
Ruth from the Richmond Branch of the San Francisco Public Library is the first to write us to point out that our poster doesn't include... of all things... an icon to representing reading as an alternative activity.
Yes, the team that designed the poster, despite being novices at designing posters, is quite embarassed for the oversite, and we noticed it only after receiving shipment of the thousands of posters that we ordered.
So I've begged Ruth for her forgiveness and I do appreciate that she pointed it out to us in a polite way. :-)
Oh... By the way, there are only 24 days left until PC-Turnoff Week!
