Driven to distraction by technology
Technology for the most part help the human kind to keep their life simpler. Email, Voice Mail, Mobile Phones most of the time keeps you connected, but it also does one more thing, it keeps you distracted. This article wonderfully captures the distraction part. Even while reading the article, i was distracted by one email, a phone call and by one instant message. So if you think that this blog is not written properly, blame it on technology. According to this article, human is not adept in multi-tasking,
The article also talks about how the software companies are planning to upgrade their softwares to make their customers less distracted. To me, if you do not want to be distracted, there is one simple but difficult solution to it, just shut yourself away from all these tech stuff and just concentrate on what you are working on. As this article says, can you work on three math problems at the same time, you will end up not solving one.
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Sorry, I could not find your email id and that's the reason I am posting this here -
My friend Girish Nadkarni is working with the Indian office of Packt Publishing Limited, a British publishing company that specializes in developing technical books on very niche software areas.
They have a full fledged editorial, marketing office based in Mumbai and now they are looking out for Indian software specialists who can author titles for them.
Please visit www.packtpub.com to know more about them.
At present they have some 17-18 titles, mostly on Dot Net and Open source technology and now Girish is looking for some Indians, to write book/s on J2EE in addition to .NET and Open Source. Their editorial team based in Mumbai will help most of these technical people while writing for them.
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Girish Nadkarni
Director
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107, Marol Co-op Industrial Estate,
Andheri Kurla Road, Saki Naka
Mumbai 400 059.
Tel: 022-56987682/83/84
98202 94348
100% true.
All these distractions have become a part of our life today and we have accepted it haven't we.!
I am sure it is going a little out of control now. Come on.. look at GMail and the GB's it is giving.!
as an example.
Satish
I am not quite interested, will surely ask if any of any friends are interested
ioiio
:)
Uma
i think we can surely live, a lot of people live without these distractions
narayanan sir
yes we have accepted distractions for sure - but as this article points out - these distractions do disrupt the proceedings
So true. Recently, I had put my resume on naukri.com and the very next day I got about 2-3 dozen calls. Needless to say, I could not work that day. I promptly got my mobile number off from the site!
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