That is the equivalent of receiving an extra two hours of free time every day, on top of the ten hours on average that we spend awake and not at work. Put in economic terms, that is an extra rise of 0.6% per year in standards of living since 1990, a far larger increase than the 0.2% per year that reliance on conventional measures would lead us to conclude.
平均而言，我们每天要花两小时用于视听享受。假设互联网宽带在一分钟内所提供的机会让你在这段时间的效用&mdash;&mdash;即你得到的乐趣&mdash;&mdash;至少增加一倍。这相当于每天活得额外的两小时自由时间。平均而言我们每天保持清醒又不需工作的时间为十小时。用经济学行话讲，这相当于1990年以来每年生活水平额外增加0.6%，远远高于常规衡量手段的计算结果0.2%。