POC Blog

The random technotheolosophical blogging of Reid S. Monaghan

Multitasking - leave it to your operating system

It is well known to technologists that multi-tasking, multi-threading and multi-core are a good thing for computers to do.  Your operating systems pretty much sucked if it could do only one thing at a time...but what about us?  Is multi-tasking as good thing?

The New Atlantis has quite an interesting article focusing on our lack of focus.  I am thinking long and hard these days on how to refocus my attention on singular tasks without interruption.  Turneth off thy WiFi!?

Something to think about...