WildcatWed, Nov 30, 2011 reviving this old (well in our hyperconnected hyper flow more than 2yrs is very old) thread for a pertinent article + podcast just out :
"So attention is key. I side with those neuroscientists who argue the brain doesn't know how to "monotask." Multitasking is a way of life, and disruption is what saves us from our own attention blindness. Right now, we are often blind to how much how world has changed and how essential it is to change our institutions to support that change. "
see The Myth of Monotasking : 8:00 AM Wednesday November 23, 2011
by: Cathy Davidson, Duke University professor and author of Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn.
reviving this old (well in our hyperconnected hyper flow more than 2yrs is very old) thread for a pertinent article + podcast just out :
"So attention is key. I side with those neuroscientists who argue the brain doesn't know how to "monotask." Multitasking is a way of life, and disruption is what saves us from our own attention blindness. Right now, we are often blind to how much how world has changed and how essential it is to change our institutions to support that change. "
see The Myth of Monotasking : 8:00 AM Wednesday November 23, 2011
by: Cathy Davidson, Duke University professor and author of Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn.