How well do you delegate priorities to your 100 billion neurons? Here's a great article from the weekend in the New York Times on multitasking. One interesting thing is the challenge to our perception that the millennials and younger people are growing up accustomed to their attentions being split between all the competing, usually technology-oriented tasks. This Vanderbilt University study suggests that interruptions are the equalizer, that is, answering the cell phone tends to bring the younger group's slight edge in speed and accuracy down to the level of the rest of us.
As Neil Postman points out in his classic Technopoly, "...the changes wrought by technology are subtle if not downright mysterious, one might say even wildly unpredictable."
