[E. Pluribus Unum]

The very word "multitasking" is so bogus.

It's an attempt by self-aggrandized pseudo-intellectuals to apply CPU architecture to human behavior.

Human behavior was around long before CPUs, and people did what they had to do to survive, and watching the hills for saber-tooth tigers while digging for tubers would have been required behavior.

[SampleMan]

Exactly. Nothing new here. Move along.

People who have no worry about where their next meal is coming from have a need to invent ways in which they are stressed more than anyone ever has been before. Its nonsense.

Its like people who believe they are the first generation who has ever had to work AND raise children at the same time. The period of non-working women was extremely short and keeping up the homestead used to be a heck of a lot of work. Women that washed clothes with a scrub board, made their own soap, cooked on wood, and butchered were sitting on their hands all day.

[wku man]

I've long thought that multitasking is just a way for employers to get one employee to do the job of three or four. What I know for certain is that when an employee's job description calls for multitasking, none of those three to four jobs gets done as well as it should. Sure, a reporter can do a phone interview, write a story, monitor the police scanners, and stack the next newscast, but something's gonna get done half-assed or overlooked altogether (firsthand knowledge).

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[wolfcreek]

Yep, you wouldn’t of been alive too long without *multi-tasking*.