Net Smart

attention, participation, collaboration, the critical consumption of

information (aka “crap detection”), and network smarts.

Gloria Mark, professor of informatics at the University of California at Irvine, has studied the effects of workplace interruptions and found that it can take up to a half hour to regain concentration on a central task afterward.

Researchers at the University of Utah reported that about 2.4 percent of the college students in their studies were able to talk on the telephone while operating an automobile driving

The first thing we all need to know about information online is how to detect crap, by which I mean information tainted by ignorance, inept communication, or deliberate deception.

I’ve found that introducing a little mindfulness where previously there had been none can be insidiously irrevocable.

how to think critically about what we pluck from the information flow, how much we are to believe what we find or are given, and whether we should even devote any mind share to it at all.

Nass was the principal author of a widely cited study that showed most media multitaskers to be worse than they thought at multitasking.

simulator—without degraded performance.