Multitasking and why it's not good for you

One of the most interesting articles we’ve seen on multitasking is currently running on the New Atlantis website. With mobile computing offering 24/7 access to the internet and email, many of us have become perpetual multitaskers, paying continuous partial attention to many things, constantly scanning for opportunities and staying on top of contacts, events, and activities in an effort to miss nothing. Never in history has the human brain been asked to track so many data points. Now as the research emerges after years of hype, it seems multitasking is not good for you! Workers distracted by e-mail and phone calls suffer a fall in IQ more than twice that found in marijuana smokers. Author Christine Rosen covers the research that unquestionably supports limiting the amount of multitasking we do.