![]() ![]() ![]() Although we think we’re doing several things at once, multitasking, this is a powerful and diabolical illusion. At the kitchen counter, cosy and secure in our domicile, we write our shopping lists on smartphones while we are listening to that wonderfully informative podcast on urban beekeeping.īut there’s a fly in the ointment. We text while we’re walking across the street, catch up on email while standing in a queue – and while having lunch with friends, we surreptitiously check to see what our other friends are doing. And we use them all the time, part of a 21st-century mania for cramming everything we do into every single spare moment of downtime. They’re more powerful and do more things than the most advanced computer at IBM corporate headquarters 30 years ago. Our smartphones have become Swiss army knife–like appliances that include a dictionary, calculator, web browser, email, Game Boy, appointment calendar, voice recorder, guitar tuner, weather forecaster, GPS, texter, tweeter, Facebook updater, and flashlight. ![]()
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