…okay, going back to 2008 for this, but what Christine Rosen writes is worth going back for. Christine Rosen is one of the writers for the New Atlantis, and one of her specialties is writing about the real impact of networked information technologies in people’s lives. Her observations are insightful, and often disturbing, as you ‘ll see in this essay The Myth of Multitasking. With the holidays upon us, and with the season one that ideally lends itself to reflecting upon one’s life and ways, the essay is worth a look. Further, we have a number of titles in the collection that can be recommended as spring boards for long winter nights spent offline, doing one thing at a time:
- The Tyranny of E-Mail: The Four Thousand Year Journey to Your Inbox by John Freeman
- The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
- The Anarchist in the Library by Siva Vaidhyanathan
- 24/7 How Cell Phones and the Internet Change the Way We Work, Live, and Play by Jarice Hansen
- The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing Our Culture by Andrew Keen
- Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology by Neal Postman
The Postman text is a classic on the topic…