[Arkcon]

I heard about this over on /. And I just seems to me like people want to whine about how our modern culture is worse than the good old days. Thing is its not the people suffering under modern technology who feel this way -- just that there are some people whose job it is to make a comment on our culture. Meh.

Here's a question. What is multitasking, applied to human behavior, I'm not talking about computer operating systems here.

Say you're working, and you get an email. You're not really multitasking if you drop a task to address an email -- you're just switching tasks as time permits. We may do this a lot more often than people realize.

Example, who didn't listen to the radio or T.V while doing homework? Teachers said that that was a bad idea, you weren't concentrating properly. But I couldn't work in a silent environment, it just didn't make sense to me.

'Spose a couple 100 years ago, some lady tended to her mending, while rocking a baby to sleep. Multitasking? Sure, why not? So is such behavior stressful? Evil?