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Multitasking And Heavy Use With Technology: Good And Bad

         

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11:24 am on Jun 7, 2010 (gmt 0)

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Multitasking And Heavy Use With Technology: Good And Bad [nytimes.com]
He goes to sleep with a laptop or iPhone on his chest, and when he wakes, he goes online. He and Mrs. Campbell, 39, head to the tidy kitchen in their four-bedroom hillside rental in Orinda, an affluent suburb of San Francisco, where she makes breakfast and watches a TV news feed in the corner of the computer screen while he uses the rest of the monitor to check his e-mail.

Major spats have arisen because Mr. Campbell escapes into video games during tough emotional stretches. On family vacations, he has trouble putting down his devices. When he rides the subway to San Francisco, he knows he will be offline 221 seconds as the train goes through a tunnel.



I don't know why I was surprised when I read this, but it does seem a little bit over the top to me.

J_RaD

5:33 pm on Jun 7, 2010 (gmt 0)



internet addiction, and always connected portable devices only make it worse.

I've said it before, to some people cell phones are like drugs.

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12:33 pm on Jun 9, 2010 (gmt 0)

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If I wanted to talk to him during his 'emotional moments', I'd roll a newspaper up and use it as a megaphone against his ear.

I hope they don't have a medical name for this 'over use of a computer to the point of unhealthiness (physically or mentally)'...

Someone should tweet him to get a grip ;)

He did have balance in his life beforehand, imo he needs it again.