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October 22, 2005 at 11:31 AM
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Driven to distraction by technology

by cachifox . Updated 20 years, 7 months ago

The typical office worker is interrupted every three minutes by a phone call, e-mail, instant message or other distraction. The problem is that it takes about eight uninterrupted minutes for our brains to get into a really creative state.

The result, says Carl Honore, journalist and author of “In Praise of Slowness,” is a situation where the digital communications that were supposed to make working lives run more smoothly are actually preventing people from getting critical tasks accomplished. (from CNET News)

It shows that they blame the Existence of the Technology now a days. Is that right?

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