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How Multitasking is making us MultiStupid
theatlantic.com — Neuroscience is confirming what we all suspect: Multitasking is dumbing us down and driving us crazy. One man ’s odyssey through the nightmare of infinite connectivity...
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- sajb, on 01/28/2008, -0/+1An eye opener.
- buddapalm, on 01/28/2008, -2/+1"the car-boat was a wonder. A thing that did one thing but also did another thing— especially the opposite thing, but at least an unrelated thing"...
hmm... travel by vehicle or boat is still travel. - stigma, on 01/28/2008, -0/+2http://www.jeffbridges.com/images/somethingtodo1.g ...
- Thuktun, on 01/28/2008, -0/+1My favorite paragraph:
"Which explains why the busts and reversals we deem inevitable are also the least preventable, and why they startle us, if briefly, when they come—because they were inevitable for so long that they should have come already. That they haven’t, we reason, can mean only one of two things. Thanks to technology or some other magic, we’ve entered a new age when the laws of cause and effect (as propounded by Isaac Newton and Adam Smith) have yielded to the principle of dream-and-make-it-happen (as manifested by Steve Jobs and Oprah). Either that, or the thing that went up and up and up and hasn’t come down, though it should have long ago, is being held aloft by our decision to forget it’s up there and to carry on as though it weren’t."
Seems particularly appropriate having gone through the dotcom bubble earlier and the housing bubble most recently. - nphase, on 01/28/2008, -0/+1This must be the explanation to my memory loss.
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