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:

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

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:

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