We are just 2 generations away from this

If that report is right, of course.

Forty years ago, people laughed at the mere idea of people walking all the time with screen helmets glued to their skulls:

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In the year that just ended, however, time spent in online “social networking” has hit new records.

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Key findings of the just released “State of Mobile 2023” Report include:

  1. “total time spent using social apps rose 17% year-over-year, now surpassing 2 trillion hours on Android phones in 2022." (source)
  2. (as global average) “Time spent on mobile increased to 5 hours per day, up 3% YoY in the top 10 markets." (source)

“Just” 3% in a year? That’s good. Except it isn’t

For more data and information, check out the full report by data.ai.

What I would like to point out here is only the fact that, should that 3% increase Year Over Year continue, it would take only about 50 years, that is just a couple of generations, for those 5 hours per day to become 24.

Or, in other words, that everybody in primary school now would end living the stand-up, walking version of that 1980s joke. That’s the only concrete difference between these two screenshots:

We are just 2 generations away from this /img/pioneer-stretched.jpg
We are just 2 generations away from this /img/matrix-pods.jpg

Ah, well. At least walking is better for one’s health than lying down, right?