Multitasking

The United States is known as a country that is always on the go, the people in the county just work and stress out too much according to my friends who live in Greece. We are brought up around everyone trying to get ahead of each other, and trying to make more money, how do we not get raised to do the same.  We look for ways to do more things at once with technology as our medium. For example its a lot easier to drive and talk on the cell phone now because of blue tooth headsets or hands free devices, we can take our work on the go now with laptops, so while we have our quick bite of lunch on our lunch break we can work on the computer at the same time. Technology has made it alot simpler for us to do more things at once, this we call multitasking. As its getting simpler is it really better for us ?

Linda stone in her talk about multi-tasking compares talking on a phone while driving to drunk driving, and brain images have shown that we cannot physically multi-task. Our brain has to switch from one activity to the other, and therefore leaving a lag of information behind when we do switch tasks. I personally don't agree with the statement of talking on the phone and driving like your drunk. I talk on the phone all the time while I'm driving, without a hands free device and I think I drive just the same. Ive never been pulled over for suspicion of drunk driving so I don't think I drive like a drunk driver at all. I can agree with the lag time after switching from tasks, because for example if I'm trying to cook and study, when I leave the task of reading my notes to stir the pasta, I come back to my notes and have to think about what I had read before, I cant just go straight back into the reading.

As we get busier with our lives and technology starts developing to make our lives easier, it could possibly get alot more dangerous and stressful. With new technologies developing companies will start expecting deadlines sooner and alot higher work load, because lets say for example you now have the Internet embedded in your head, and what comes out of your mouth or even your thoughts will transfer to paper. Now work will expect you to be working while driving, or watching TV. My mind just goes into these crazy places when I think about what will be possible in the future, and how unhealthy it could be for peoples health.

Not only are they stressing when they are at work, now they can go home and stress about their work too, and have no excuse not to do it, because it is in their head!

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