According to my latest wireless plan billing, my 14 year old used 1 GB of cell data and 33 GB of wireless data. As I teach a course that has a learning outcome involving how technology impacts society, these values made me give pause and reflect. Could this 33GB be one or two full length ultra HD movies? Knowing my son, he is more interested in sports, humor clips, Instagram (or at least he was last week), sending photos to his pals, etc. and not viewing digitally remastered high definition versions of Casablanca.
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