The Autumn of the Multitaskers
I’ve been waiting to read this article for quite a while…
www.theatlantic.com/doc/2007…titasking
come on, read it with me.
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blossom
10 Thu, April 24, 2008 – 11:14 AM
interesting…
I love it that his first example of multitasking is driving off the road while trying to find nudie pix on his cell phone.
Swami
263 Thu, April 24, 2008 – 12:20 PM
why do you think my truck is so fucked up?
Bo
287 Thu, April 24, 2008 – 1:23 PM
Some Thoughts
I grew up on an island. No mall, one movie at the movie theater, 12 TV channels (10 of them sucked), no internet until I was 15-ish. And I am one of the only people I know who can be bored without being frustrated by it! I get so focused when I read that often my name is the only thing that will break me out. I like sitting and staring.
I can’t talk on my cell phone and walk at the same time.
And I read this article while I was supposed to be working.
Ironic!
niles
43 Mon, April 28, 2008 – 6:41 PM
there’s some good stuff in there… but it’s heavy with masturbatory prose and could have gotten the point across in one page rather than three numbingly long ones.
Interesting read though, and I do feel like I’ve been dumbed down over the years by routinely splitting my concentration to multiple tasks and plain old information overload.