Posted on 04/15/2008 5:53:02 AM PDT by shove_it
That's right - it's official. I heard it on the streets of San Francisco this week.
"Omnitasking" has replaced "multitasking" as the entrepreneur's work style.
As soon as I heard it, literally as I passed someone on the sidewalk, I whipped around and asked, what's "omnitasking?!" It was explained that omnitasking is a higher state of multitasking enabled by today's many technology tools. Talking on a bluetooth-enabled smart phone while sending out an email from your laptop and sipping a latte at the corner coffee shop - that's omnitasking. I'll add additional meaning to the new term and inject the "omnipresent" aspect. You can now multitask from anywhere, unfettered, and that kicks you up a notch to omnitasking, too.
Of course, I was joking with friends about the new term at a party last evening. We all got carried away creating new "_____"-tasking terms. Potential keepers included "sportstasking", "taxtasking", "nontasking" and more. Maybe you can come up with a few?
For now, though, start letting the omnitasking terminology roll off your tongue. You'll be hanging with the best of them...
Omnitasking = a new concept by which the self-important may reconvince themselves.
I have a lady friend who is very fond of what she calls “multitasking.” I’ve told her that to me, she is just scatterbrained. Didn’t win me any points. {:^(
If they are omnitasking and over 30 and not yet retired, they have failed. Many assume they will never retire and will work until they drop, omnitasking until the moment of nulltasking.
I am SO agrivated by people who are typing something else on the computer when speaking with me on a case.
It is as if the infernal multilayer billing of lawyers has now infested multitasking.
How about just calling it “skimming”. Trying to do too many things at the same time leads to nothing substantial being accomplished.
When I was training in computers, this was called an interrupt stack
Data was pushed to the stack, remembering the current processor state
then the processor “attended” to the interrupting stimulus
Keeping track of this, as I remember
was a pain in the patootie
It is even more interesting to note
that the author is a female
My grandmother used to say, “You can only do one thing at a time, well.”
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