How many of you remember Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs from your college marketing classes?  It was (and still is) a pyramid of needs that need and want to be met, with health, food & sleep as the base, moving upwards through belonging and esteem and ending up at self actualization. 70 years later this pyramid is as important to understanding our fellow humans as it was when it was first written.  The people at  informationisbeautiful.net have created a simliar pyramid diagram outlining our digital distractions.