Did you hear the piece on NPR about multitasking? Many of the multitasking activities they mentioned were caused or enabled by technology. Like I talked about with the Emmy's and the VP debate, people are partaking in multiple media at once for entertainment purposes...add that to working, sending emails, checking Facebook, talking on the phone, and texting, and many of us have the ability to--or feel compelled to--do more than one thing at once.
The NPR piece cautions though that you aren't REALLY doing more than one thing at once, you are shifting your attention quickly from one thing to the next.
Do you think the many channels of activity you are expected to monitor helps you or does it drive you crazy?
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