---
"title": "By the numbers: Technology’s place in our lives"
"description": "Director Lee Rainie presented data on technology's place in our lives according to numbers at the Wisdom 2.0 Conference in Redwood City, CA."
"date": "2012-02-23"
"authors":
  -
    "name": "Lee Rainie"
    "job_title": "Former Director, Internet and Technology Research"
    "link": "https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/staff/lee-rainie/"
"url": "https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/internet/2012/02/23/by-the-numbers-technologys-place-in-our-lives/"
"categories":
  - "Leisure"
  - "Lifestyle"
  - "Mobile"
  - "Technology Adoption"
"tags":
  - "Social Networking"
  - "Web 2.0"
---

# By the numbers: Technology’s place in our lives

Director Lee Rainie presented data on technology’s place in our lives according to numbers at the [Wisdom 2.0 Conference](http://www.wisdom2summit.com/About) in Redwood City, CA. The event “brings together people from a variety of disciplines, including technology leaders, Zen teachers, neuroscientists, and academics, to explore how we can live with deeper meaning and wisdom in our technology-rich age.”

You can download his slides, and an accompanying PDF that contains sources for the data presented in the slideshow, above.