Multitasking bad, m’kay?

Besedo infomanija bom brž dodal v slovar k tegobam nove dobe, tja zraven “information overloada”, informacijskega šuma in pogostih prekinitev (interruptov).

“Workers distracted by e-mail and phone calls suffer a fall in IQ more than twice that found in marijuana smokers.” The psychologist who led the study called this new “infomania” a serious threat to workplace productivity.

Wikipedija o infomaniji pove tole:

It is also understood as distraction caused by the urge to check email, text messaging and other sources of information, which causes the person to show symptoms to neglect other, often more important things – duties, family, etc. (For instance, a typical symptom of infomania is that of checking email frequently during vacation.)

Pa še o multitaskingu. (Kar nas pripelje do moje pobožne želje, da bi končno nehal skakat z ideje na idejo in vsaj en projekt pripeljal do konca).

One of the Harvard Business Review’s “Breakthrough Ideas” for 2007 was Linda Stone’s notion of “continuous partial attention,” which might be understood as a subspecies of multitasking: using mobile computing power and the Internet, we are “constantly scanning for opportunities and staying on top of contacts, events, and activities in an effort to miss nothing.”

Multitasking might also be taking a toll on the economy. One study by researchers at the University of California at Irvine monitored interruptions among office workers; they found that workers took an average of twenty-five minutes to recover from interruptions such as phone calls or answering e-mail and return to their original task.

Viri: The New Atlantis–The Myth of Multitasking, Wikipedija