S)T in the News: Is Multitasking a Thing of the Past?
"Multitasking has long been a badge of honor for the digitally well-armed," writes Gloria Goodale in a recent Christian Science Monitor article, "Mastering the high-tech tools that help us."
She goes on to suggest that there is a price to pay for spreading oneself too thin, and asked Social Technologies futurist Simeon Spearman to offer his thoughts on the topic.
Both computers and humans really only process one thing at a time, Spearman said. The machines do this so quickly, in parallel process, that they appear to be multitasking. But they are able to process far more information than humans -- and are more capable with each jump in computer speed.
When you see the demands we put on computers these days and how much they can process, you begin to understand just how much we're being hit by all the time.
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Hope Katz Gibbs
in Information, Press, Infotech
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