Twittering Twits
March 29, 2007 at 3:51 pm
With all the talk recently about Twitter (to Twitter or not to Twitter?), I was interested to read about a series of new reports that found limits to multi-tasking.
Original post I found here, but the detail about all the studies is here.
One would think that the kids are great at multi-tasking because they have grown up around digital devices. My nephews IM their mates while playing Nintendo, with the telly or music on in the background. However, according to the New York Times “recent research suggests that popular perception is open to question. A group of 18- to 21-year-olds and a group of 35- to 39-year-olds were given 90 seconds to translate images into numbers, using a simple code.
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