When I was a kid, all I wanted to do was read. I could sit in a corner
of my room and read all day long--ten, twelve hours--and barely take a
break to pee and eat. To me, multitasking meant walking home from
school and reading my novel at the same time (don't try this yourself,
kids). These days, kids have computers, video games, a bazillion
television channels, iphones, yadda yadda, fill-in-the-technological
blank. They do twenty things at once. If they don't have twenty
things to do, they get bored.
So says NPR's recent report on teens and multitasking. According to recent brain research, there is concern
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