We’ve all experienced the promise of multitasking: working on a report, while also answering an email, chatting with a friend and listening to music. But Sherry Turkle, author of “Alone Together”, argues that multitasking is actually making us less productive and maybe even miserable, in a video from The Economist’s Ideas Economy events series.  

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    Multitasking is actually making us less productive and maybe even miserable A video from The Economist’s Ideas Economy...
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    She’s got a point.
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    That being said, get back to whatever you were doing before!
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    -__________- not amused………………..what the fuck is she even talking about with competency being degraded….ok like if you...