Moonlighting is another term that is used these days of recession (why dont they call it 'depression'?). It has been in vogue atleast in Tamil Nadu maybe for centuries. The multiplexing that I am more bothered is people doing many things at the same time. I have heard some people say that I have lot of bandwidth and am able to do many things. Yes and no, actually. Sure, I can code, document and test for different projects in the same day. I cannot do all of them together. For me, I was amused when I saw/read/heard that some cannot work without listening to songs. I cannot do such an activity, which is referred these days as 'multiplexing'. I dont hear, I listen. I dont watch, I see. I dont eat, I taste. Doing many things at a time, dilutes my sense and sensibility, I feel.
I can afford to ignore this as long as people keep it 'self-contained' and dont affect others. Especially moving in public is a big issue atleast wherever I go. People are shouting the hell out on their mobile phones and I think there is some sort of madness in people to be perenially hearing something on their mobile, forget about their shouting replies. People are hearing a lot but listening very little. Talking a lot, saying very little. I think muddling up many things in the name of 'multiplexing' is not for the better of any of it. Neither are they saying anything nor are they listening to the other person. I was not at all surprised to read - Don’t use mobile phones, motorists told.
RTO (Madurai central) T.G. Thomas said that talking over mobile phones and riding/driving vehicles was more dangerous than drunken driving. Vehicular checks carried out by the authorities (on drivers who were spotted talking over phones) revealed that they (drivers’) were not concentrating on the driving.Indeed :(
Update: 31 Mar 2010
Not at all surprised to read doubts expressed on human multitasking.
Simply dealing with the deluge gives people the illusion of productivity. But statistics indicate that might be all it is - an illusion.
In particular, efficiency experts are alarmed by the effects of computer-enabled multitasking on office work and office workers. "I used to say that multitasking made a task take 15 percent longer. Now I say 50 percent," says Bary Sherman, Head of PEP Productivity Solutions, a California-based management consultancy that specializes in helping organizations become more efficient.
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