I'm not getting one of those Fitbit things, still recovering from my Wii telling me I’m overweight and that I have the agility, balance and body of a 90 year-old
- Charlie Isaacs
will drop you and call u back robert
- Steve Gillmor
Ok... Kevin is drinking beer, John T. probably iced tea but could be spiked and robert has dropped off to do a shot. I don't know what John B. is drinking today. Any guesses?
- Tina Chase Gillmor
push notifications serialize realtime so you don't have to multitask - unfortunately ios notification center becoming another inbox for me
- Ankush Narula
many new apps are creating alternative inboxes
- Kevin Marks
Push notifications do remind me of email. Constantly in my face at the office.
- Alex de Soto
"Well, that's like hypnotizing chickens" --Iggy Pop
- Jerome Hughes
i agree that SOME people have issues multi tasking while others cannot function if they are NOT multi tasking
- studentforce
Charlie this is less true these days as I have taken to locking the cats out of the studio because they become so demanding when we're doing the show. On the other hand, I'm always herding cats on the GIllmor gang ;-)
- Tina Chase Gillmor
I believe students and people born after 1995 naturally multi task as they have known nothing else
- studentforce
i wish i could do two things at once on the ipad. i get so annoyed when i'm watchin a vid on a web page, and it stops when i go to a new tab to look something up
- Stephen M
I like the sunlight streaming into Borthwick's space
- Tina Chase Gillmor
I was born in 1966 and I've been doing this since I was able to
- Kevin Marks
so I guess what I'm saying is that the ability to multi task is probably a combination of physical (dopamine based whatever) and evolutionary
- studentforce
some people have a hard time accepting multiple capabilities in one person that they have not experienced in one person before
- Jerome Hughes
@da any "task" that is run on auto-pilot can't count as part of a "multi" task. We are not consciously thinking about walking - that is an automatic process, just as much as seeing where you're walking while you chew that gum.. :)
- Kevin Costain
Have tweets made us more succinct? More to the point? Does Facebook remind us to take photographs? Does Pinterest organize our minds in a visual way?
- Tina Chase Gillmor
Intel's 'golden age’ of hybrid PCs more multi-tasking or more push-notification.
- clive boulton
quite - that's what I was saying- your brain is naturally multi-taking, and with practice things become background tasks, and the single narrative is the story a part of our brain curates for us afterwards
- Kevin Marks
my grandmother got the biggest smile when i showed her how to say "xbox chat" or whatever it is..and they got to see their grand child on the big screen..
- Stephen M