Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The concurrent operation by one central processing unit of two or more processes.
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Examples
“A Phone on a thong. .that's what I call multitasking!”
“Studies at the University of Michigan and Vanderbilt have shown that multitasking is really a misnomer.”
The Huffington Post: Joe Robinson: Is Email Making You Stupid?
“Such practitioners know that the complicated behavior we call multitasking is just doing many things poorly, and none of them well.”
“David Wertheimer, executive director of the Entertainment Technology Center at the University of Southern California, warned that multitasking is overload and is hurting productivity.”
Internet News: Get a Grip on Distractions and Overload with GTD
“This multitasking is something that teens and even tweens are becoming extraordinarily good at doing.”
The New Multitasking Lifestyle Starts Very Early | Impact Lab
“Instead, a rise in multitasking has meant that time spent with both types of media keeps going up.”
“This means that the total debt is vastly higher, since personal digital assistants (the devices that, in my opinion, turned multitasking from a habit into a pathology, which the advent of Bluetooth then rendered fatal and the spread of wireless broadband made communicable) are several annums old.”
“The most peculiar byproduct of this multitasking is not a misprint, not a throwback to 1995, but is, in fact, a $12 bid for Sammy Sosa.”
“I also run Ubuntu Feisty Fawn at home, and the multitasking speed seems about the same (but then again, I remember the abysmal multitasking performance that Windows 9x had, if you could even call it multitasking).”
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bilby "But more recently, challenges to the ethos of multitasking have begun to emerge. Numerous studies have shown the sometimes-fatal danger of using cell phones and other electronic devices while driving, for example, and several states have now made that particular form of multitasking illegal. In the business world, where concerns about time-management are perennial, warnings about workplace distractions spawned by a multitasking culture are on the rise. In 2005, the BBC reported on a research study, funded by Hewlett-Packard and conducted by the Institute of Psychiatry at the University of London, that found, 'Workers distracted by e-mail and phone calls suffer a fall in IQ more than twice that found in marijuana smokers.'�?
- Christine Rosen, The Myth of Multitasking, The New Atlantis, Spring 2008. Mar 23, 2009