Online Attention
http://indi.ca/2010/08/online-attention/ (indi.ca)
published: 2010-08-16 09:54:11 ( 17 months ago )fetched: 2010-08-16 11:15:37 ( 17 months ago )
I was reading an article on the brain and modern distractions, on my phone, but half way through I was thinking I should tweet it. I was in the midst of watching Infernal Affairs on surfthechannel.com and had not yet had breakfast. I only now finished the article, and that after numerous interruptions. I'm not sure I've retained much. On bit is that "Behavioral studies have shown that performance suffers when people multitask." Multitasking all the time, I have to concur. In many spheres I find that we're being driven towards a world of quantity [ ... ]
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