It's not called the idiot box for nothing, you know.

… If you take Wikipedia as a kind of unit, all of Wikipedia, the whole project--every page, every edit, every talk page, every line of code, in every language that Wikipedia exists in - that represents the cumulation of 100 million hours of human thought ...

Even as full of tripe as it is Wikipedia has thought behind it ... bad thought for the most part, but thought just the same.

And television watching?

Two hundred billion hours, in the U.S. alone, every year.

Put another way, now that we have a unit, that's 2,000 Wikipedia projects a year spent watching television.

Or put still another way, in the U.S., we spend 100 million hours every weekend, just watching the ads ...

And one wonders why the mass populace is "dumb"?!