Turns out I've had good reason to worry about how The Matrix is impacting humans. Over at Health.com:
A new study suggests that people who often do multiple tasks in a variety of media—texting, instant messaging, online video watching, word processing, Web surfing, and more—do worse on tests in which they need to switch attention from one task to another than people who rarely multitask in this way. Specifically, heavy multitaskers are more easily distracted by irrelevant information than those who aren’t constantly in a multimedia frenzy, according to the study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Chris, Bora, Phil, Sci, Isis, Physioprof, Zuska, Jessica, PalMD, Grrl, Janet and the rest... we may have a problem. Then again, what's wrong with being mad as a hatter?
