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they can fit into the same quantity of
tasks that a decade ago would have taken
31 hours to complete.
For many people the frenzy starts over
breakfast, reading e-mails on a tablet
computer while making toast. It continues in
the bus where you with a Bluetooth earpiece have a conference call while listening to the radio and reading the latest news in the Internet.
Study or work is then a great many of messages, phone calls, surfing the Net,
often happening simultaneously. However, the most intense period of multitasking is in the evening. “People will be pressing the television
remote control while using a wireless laptop computer balanced on their
knee, e–mailing and texting friends on a mobile phone, downloading the music and having a conversation with family members or roommates”, said Patrick Moriarty, one of the authors of the report.
One of the respondents agreed that for him and his wife the evening is the
peak of multitasking. “Both of us are out of the house during the day. When
we come back in the evening we tend to have a lot of technology on the go.
We’ll be using online banking. Facebook, and email, and programming the
TV shows we want to watch later. On the one hand it’s good – you get more
done. On the other hand, when I left university seven years ago, life was
much simpler. There was more talking face-to-face and more time spent over
dinner”.
