- TECHNOLOGY has given us many gifts, among them dozens of new ways to grab our attention. It’s hard to talk to a friend without your phone buzzing at least once. Odds are high you will check your Twitter feed or Facebook wall while reading this article. Just try to type a memo at work without having an e-mail pop up that ruins your train of thought.
- But what constitutes distraction? Does the mere possibility that a phone call or e-mail will soon arrive drain your brain power? And does distraction matter — do interruptions make us dumber? Quite a bit, according to new research by Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Lab.
Read the article from the Sunday NY Times here.
NOTE: If you are interested in this topic, I **highly** recommend the PBS Frontline episode called "Digital Nation." You can find the audio podcast of the program here (it's #66). Or you can watch the video via the PBS website here.
