The change in America we largely ignore

Wolves and Sheep - Americans have added six hours of media consumption to their average day, up from 7.5 hours in the 1970s to 13.5 hours today. The extra hours of media consumption mostly involve computers, including desktops, laptops, smartphones and tablets.

This is such a dramatic change in the way we live that any explanation of almost any modern problem we face must at least consider how spending more than half our waking hours using computers has changed us. I mean, computers were inaccessible to the general public before about 1980, and now using computers is how the average American spends the majority of their time.

Sam Smith - And this, I would argue, is a major reason for the cultural and political changes in America: we know more about figures reported in the media than in the important folks in our own communities.