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So the next time you sit down to watch television, or, um, surf the internet, remember: your BMP count might be getting into dangerous territory.

Try to imagine that same sentence with "to read a book" substituted for "to watch television, or, um, surf the internet". Hard, isn't it?

This is anti-technology bigotry. Pretty surprising at singularityhub.com, huh? That's how pervasive it is.

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I would assume they picked the examples because it's singularityhub. Most of their readers are likely to be technology/gadget centric and a message about more tech centric activities was probably expected to resonate better than a message about something as "old fashioned" as reading a book.

Beside, be honest. What percentage of the population do you think actually spends more time reading books than watching TV and surfing the internet?

BTW: According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, watching TV accounted for more than half the total leisure time for Americans 15 years and older. (http://www.bls.gov/news.release/atus.nr0.htm)

I used to. I don't watch TV, but I probably spend too much time on the computer. Just a few years ago I would read more than any other activity.

Maybe surfing the net is more addictive than reading a book.

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