CNN.com is doing a weeklong series called "Our Mobile Lives" about cell phones and how they impact our lifestyle and culture. So far the coverage is neither groundbreaking nor surprising, yet it is nevertheless very disturbing.
Here are some horrifying highlights from SMARTPHONES: OUR NATIONAL OBSESSION by John D Sutter..
There are serious questions about what these gadgets may be doing to our brains. Some researchers say intense multitasking degrades a person's ability to focus deeply, think creatively and, in the end, be more productive. Smartphones are among the technologies promoting this mode of thinking, where people toggle continually between streams of information.
A 2009 Stanford University research study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that multitaskers -- those who try to view two or more types of media simultaneously -- are more easily distracted.
"They're suckers for irrelevancy," Stanford professor Clifford Nass said in a written statement about the study, which examined 262 university students. "Everything distracts them."
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