Yeah, the connotation has certainly drifted from the technical source of the term, taking on the weight of a whole interaction style. Imho, OS's should put con

Yeah, the connotation has certainly drifted from the technical source of the term, taking on the weight of a whole interaction style. Imho, OS's should put controls on applications like mixers have on channels: "mute" and "solo". A bit off topic, the application of such technical terms to other things, like people, has a bit of fascination to me. Mostly because so much of how we get along in the world and our perceptions/reasoning in general are shaped by the vocabulary we adopt to describe. Anger as heat, a person builds a head of steam, blows their top. Did the experience of anger change when that metaphor took hold? Now people might multitask whereas before they might have thought of it as juggling tasks. The first seems so much more astute; the second not like something to be done with anything important. Ok, I'm seriously procrastinating, now... sorry.