Sherry Turkle Why We Must Stop Multitasking. Think You're Multitasking? Think Again. Multitasking Is Not Possible According to Neuroscience. Attention: Part 3. Tell me if this has ever happened to you.
You treat yourself to a dinner with a friend, who you haven’t seen in a while. The dim lighting adds a charming ambiance, the bread basket is choc-full of warm dinner rolls, and your conversation is riveting… until your friend pulls out their cell phone. He or she begins reading missed texts they have been getting since the beginning of dinner, and the conversation comes to a slow and bumpy halt. In an attempt to keep the conversation going you ask another question, your friend doesn’t answer because they are too preoccupied with their phone.