“Virtually all multitaskers think they are brilliant at multitasking…
It turns out, multitaskers are terrible at every aspect of multitasking. They get distracted constantly. Their memory is very disorganized…
We worry that it may be creating people who are unable to think well and clearly.”
Clifford Nass
Stanford University
Scary and exciting… PBS’s Frontline production, Digital Nation – Life on the Virtual Frontier.
Pick this over your next top model-chef-bachelor-biggest-smallest-loser-winner show (86 minutes). You can watch the whole thing or watch it in 9 segments (click on the little circles below the video to see the chapter choices – so much added content on their site).
Incredible to have access to such great stuff… on demand… for free. Thanks PBS, MacArthur Foundation, Park Foundation, Verizon, and contributors.
(Here’s 4 quick tips to minimize the bulk of distractions… because you want your time to matter.)
Very interesting video. Confirms some of my suspicions about mulit-tasking. My favorite part is when the doctors says that multi-taskers believe they are brilliant at multi-tasking when they are really terrible!