Do Gadgets Really Make Our Lives More Complicated? - Techland - TIME.com: "A new study published by Ad Age takes a look at the various ways new technologies—in particular, e-readers and tablets—influence the lives of the affluent, concluding that at the end of the day, additive technologies make life more complicated than not.
Assuming that 'affluent' means households earning annual median incomes of $100,000 or more, the study showed some unsurprising findings: 98% of them are online for at least 25 hours a week; two-thirds own a TV recorder, with 58% of them fast-forwarding through commercials; and 52% of them own smartphones or equivalent devices, not accounting for the much broader spectrum of overall cell phone owners (smartphones and feature phones, combined)."
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