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It's worth taking this entire article with a pinch of salt. I'm sure the anecdotal observations are correct but the analysis of their implications is far from c

• hzzn 17y ago
  I agree. It seems you could have written this article during Jane Austen's time. "Children growing up are going to be SOOOO much different from the previous generation because the post is delivered as often as SIX times a day and OMG will this kind of instant communication breed a new race of hive mind humans?????????//?/?" (Perhaps not the most believable pastiche of 18th-century written English ever.) Another bubbling intra-generational gap, as any modern parent knows, is that younger children tend to be ever more artful multitaskers. Studies performed by Dr. Rosen at Cal State show that 16- to 18-year-olds perform seven tasks, on average, in their free time — like texting on the phone, sending instant messages and checking Facebook while sitting in front of the television. People in their early 20s can handle only six, Dr. Rosen found, and those in their 30s perform about five and a half. I think that the physical differences between the brains of those three age groups is pretty significant. Isn't it possible that a fifteen-year-old would lose her multitasking prowess by her mid-twenties, whether or not she was born with an iPhone in her hands?