Network Deprivation

Network Deprivation
Brad Stone’s ironic term for sleep – indicating its role in cutting people off from the Web.

Writing recently in The Times, Brad Stone introduced readers to “morning in America in the Internet age”:

After six to eight hours of network deprivation – also known as sleep – people are increasingly waking up and lunging for cellphones and laptops, sometimes even before swinging their legs to the floor and tending to more biologically urgent activities.
According to Stone, “Internet companies that used to watch traffic levels rise only when people booted up at work now see the uptick much earlier”:
Arbor Networks, a Boston company that analyzes Internet use, says that Web traffic in the United States gradually declines from midnight to around 6 a.m. on the East Coast and then gets a huge morning caffeine jolt. “It’s a rocket ship that takes off at 7 a.m,” said Craig Labovitz, Arbor’s chief scientist.


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