“The cost, however, is that, unlike the computer, our brains need to have time to refocus on each task each time we turn to it.”
The author of the piece you cite is apparently blissfully unaware that computers also take time to ‘refocus’ on each task as they switch. Stacks and other low-level system registers have to be saved and restored so that each process can be handled seamlessly.
Unlike us, the computer doesn’t get confused and forget where it put that piece of paper just a minute ago.
“Unlike us, the computer doesn’t get confused and forget where it put that piece of paper just a minute ago.”
True! I multitask all the time, and here I thought I was just getting off on rabit trails. There is a funny short little diatribe about going to get a Dr. Pepper and the route the person took throughout the day before they ever went back to the DP. Wish I knew where to find it because it is so true.
Heck, I forget where I put my car keys, my credit card, etc.
Guess, this multi and omni are way over my head. I cannot find my reading glasses now.
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