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This is Scientific Americans' 60-second Science. I'm Karen Hopkins.

The rise in technology, particularly for information and communication, is radically transforming lifestyles.

For example, many people can now work from home and still be in almost constant contact with the office.

Or maybe you prefer your own couch for watching a recently released

movie rather than trekking to the local theater. This technology-induced lifestyle changes

affect how people consume energy and ultimately affect the energy demand of the nation.

Ashok Seykar, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas, Austin. To assess how our changing

use of technology might alter our energy consumption, SACAR and his colleagues first set out to

determine how much more were in our homes than we were in the past. For more than a decade, the U.S.

Bureau of Labor Statistics has surveyed how Americans spend their time each day.

More than 11,000 citizens respond to the survey each year.

In crunching the numbers from this survey, the researchers found that Americans are definitely logging more hours in their living rooms.

When compared to 2003, in the year 2012, Americans spent eight days more at home.

That's seven fewer days spent in non-residential spaces, and one less day spent traveling per year.

And that's on average.

The younger generation exhibited even stronger homebody tendencies.

The population aged 18 to 24 spent two weeks more at home in 2012 compared to

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