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Found this via Doc. It represents a point of view that is rampant in the Church, and not without it's valuable points. I too find myself disturbed when I see someone at a resteraunt, sitting WITH aother live person, mind you, and spends the whole 30 some-odd minutes on a cell phone. I also get REALLY annoyed when some driver, talking on a cell phone, does something stupid. I remember a scene that was in the outtakes from Back to theFuture 2, during the dinner time scene in the future at the future Marty McFly's house. 3 generations of McFly's are at the dinner table, the two grandparents talking to each other, and all the rest are only physically present. They are all watching TV or talking to someone else through their own personal technology tools (eye mounted dispays, etc). All of these things are especially annoying to the "technology is evil" crowd. They are the kind of thing that creates some of them who think technolology is evil. There does come a time and a "line" that should not be crossed in deference to manners.
There's also the matter of how much of this is Attention Deficit Disorder and how much is actually Multi-tasking for the sake of "covering all the bases". The book I'm reading, Natural Born Cyborgs, supports the idea that the brain is amazingly plastic, able to grow and adapt in its absorbing the routine tasks to the point of performing them almost unconsciously (like the task of walking to get something; our system sends the command "Get a Coke" and our system runs the "walk to the refridgerator and get a can of Coke from my stash routine". At any time during that routine, we can notice that we are opening the refridgerator door, or we might be , and often are , thinking of something else. The "conference Blogging" that many are doing now has me amazed at how some can listen and take such refective notes while the speaker is speaking (part of my amazement is that I'm sush a slow and lame typist). If I were to become much better at typing/keyboarding, then this part would be much less of a "consciousness hog" and allow me to type as I listen, much like I could do when I was in college and my "note-taking, pencil/pen holding hand was in good shape. What I'm saying is that ADD is not neccessarily the culprit here. It's the ability of the brain to take its tools for granted. What seems like undue attention and conscious usage to some may be "scaffolding" that has become second nature to others. I've seen it in some of the notes and reflections I've seen in live-blogging.
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