Cord cutters: Young people are definitely watching video, but it's more likely something from YouTube or a friend's Snapchat story on their phone than the episode of Grey's Anatomy their parents are watching on the living room TV.
Good news! There's something else we might be able to blame on those darn millennials besides killing breakfast cereal and shunning the Olympics. They might also crush our disappointingly fragile digital highways.
The US (and the world) is in the midst of a sea change in how we spend our leisure time. Young people are less inclined to indulge in America's favourite pastime: zoning out in front of the TV. On average, people ages 18 to 24 spend half as much time watching live and recorded television as 35- to 49-year-old Americans, according to Nielsen.
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