« Mighty stupid media | Main | Out and about »
Touch me
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.
Comments
Indeed, just like one has to wonder whether a passion for reading in bed might displace other passions, right?
Posted by: Seth Finkelstein ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.roughtype.com/nav-commenters.gif)
at October 1, 2010 10:10 PM
Most definitely.
Posted by: Nick Carr at October 1, 2010 10:41 PM
This is nothing new. If you want to tell if I'm asleep, you should watch for my fingers slipping off my PowerBook trackpad. The problem is, when my screensaver goes to black, it wakes me up.
Posted by: Charles at October 1, 2010 10:56 PM
Don't be silly, Nick. The iPad is too busy being delicious, learning, memories, productive, artful, literary, learning, historic, and magical. Once you get it in bed for the night, it almost always has a headache.
I'm growing increasingly frustrated waiting for the upgrade...
Posted by: Kelly Roberts at October 2, 2010 01:15 PM
Follow-up survey might test for a positive correlation with number of years married...
Posted by: 5tein at October 4, 2010 03:51 PM
I remember a study some time ago that found that couple who put televisions in their bedroom have much less sex than couple who don't. Will this be another extension of that?
Posted by: Simon Owens at October 4, 2010 03:55 PM
We selected The Shallows as our book club review for October 2010 as it offered a challenging and interesting read on a debate that has increasing importance as each new piece of technology attempts to take up our spare time.
www.ourbookclub.net.au
Posted by: Tracy at October 6, 2010 03:30 AM
After reading "The Shallows", I Started performing a "Digital Fast" in which ALL SCREENS ARE SHUTDOWN for two whole days. Sitting near my wife on the quiet sofa, I suddenly saw her in a way that wasn't there for a while. Re-occurring digital noise was disturbing that. And that's only one effect of stoping. try it at home. You suddenly can hear yourself think.
Thank you Nick!
Posted by: Yoavtaler at October 7, 2010 06:00 AM
Designed for reclined?
Posted by: Bart Whitebook at October 8, 2010 08:39 AM
There's no surprise in the figure as it reflects my almost cured addiction to my android cellphone. Last minute email checking, playing with apps and in the morning reading all the newspapers and so on.
However my contract runs out this month and after reading The Shallows I've decided to go back to reading a book at bedtime...
Posted by: John Hobson at October 9, 2010 07:39 AM
Post a comment
Thanks for signing in, . Now you can comment. (sign out)
(If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)
Now in paperback:
Pulitzer Prize Finalist
"Riveting" -San Francisco Chronicle
"Rewarding" -Financial Times
"Revelatory" -Booklist
The Cloud, demystified:
"Future Shock for the web-apps era" -Fast Company
"Ominously prescient" -Kirkus Reviews
"Riveting stuff" -New York Post
Greatest hits
Avatars consume as much electricity as Brazilians
The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock's avatar
Flight of the wingless coffin fly
Other writing
The end of corporate computing
The limits of computers:
Order from Amazon
Visit book site