The Benefits of Distraction and Overstimulation -- New York Magazine - The Diigo Meta page

• 07 Jun 09
  

  Sean Dagony-Clark
  • More than any other organ, the brain is designed to change based on experience, a feature called neuroplasticity.
  • neuroscientist Gary Small
• 03 Jun 09
  

  Jason L
  • There’s been lots of hand-wringing about all the skills they might lack, mainly the ability to concentrate on a complex task from beginning to end, but surely they can already do things their elders can’t—like conduct 34 conversations simultaneously across six different media, or pay attention to switching between attentional targets in a way that’s been considered impossible.
  • As we become more skilled at the 21st-century task Meyer calls “flitting,” the wiring of the brain will inevitably change to deal more efficiently with more information. The neuroscientist Gary Small speculates that the human brain might be changing faster today than it has since the prehistoric discovery of tools.
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  • • Kids growing up now might have an associative genius we don’t—a sense of the way ten projects all dovetail into something totally new.
• 01 Jun 09
  

  Tac Anderson
  • As we become more skilled at the 21st-century task Meyer calls “flitting,” the wiring of the brain will inevitably change to deal more efficiently with more information. The neuroscientist Gary Small speculates that the human brain might be changing faster today than it has since the prehistoric discovery of tools. Research suggests we’re already picking up new skills: better peripheral vision, the ability to sift information rapidly.
  • Kids growing up now might have an associative genius we don’t—a sense of the way ten projects all dovetail into something totally new. They might be able to engage in seeming contradictions: mindful web-surfing, mindful Twittering. Maybe, in flights of irresponsible responsibility, they’ll even manage to attain the paradoxical, Zenlike state of focused distraction.
• 26 May 09
  

  Benjamin Jörissen
  • Which brings me, finally, to the next generation of attenders, the so-called “net-gen” or “digital natives,”
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  Sonya N
  • Kids growing up now might have an associative genius we don’t—a sense of the way ten projects all dovetail into something totally new.
• 24 May 09
  

  Mario A Núñez
  • As we become more skilled at the 21st-century task Meyer calls “flitting,” the wiring of the brain will inevitably change to deal more efficiently with more information.
  • They might be able to engage in seeming contradictions: mindful web-surfing, mindful Twittering. Maybe, in flights of irresponsible responsibility, they’ll even manage to attain the paradoxical, Zenlike state of focused distraction.
• 21 May 09
  

  Steve Shann
  • There’s been lots of hand-wringing about all the skills they might lack, mainly the ability to concentrate on a complex task from beginning to end, but surely they can already do things their elders can’t—like conduct 34 conversations simultaneously across six different media, or pay attention to switching between attentional targets in a way that’s been considered impossible. More than any other organ, the brain is designed to change based on experience, a feature called neuroplasticity. London taxi drivers, for instance, have enlarged hippocampi (the brain region for memory and spatial processing)—a neural reward for paying attention to the tangle of the city’s streets.
  • We recently elected the first-ever BlackBerry president, able to flit between sixteen national crises while focusing at a world-class level. Kids growing up now might have an associative genius we don’t—a sense of the way ten projects all dovetail into something totally new. They might be able to engage in seeming contradictions: mindful web-surfing, mindful Twittering. Maybe, in flights of irresponsible responsibility, they’ll even manage to attain the paradoxical, Zenlike state of focused distraction
• 20 May 09
  

  Tammy Flaman
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  Clive McGoun

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  • Which brings me, finally, to the next generation of attenders, the so-called “net-gen” or “digital natives,” kids who’ve grown up with the Internet and other time-slicing technologies.

  • Kids growing up now might have an associative genius we don’t—a sense of the way ten projects all dovetail into something totally new. They might be able to engage in seeming contradictions: mindful web-surfing, mindful Twittering. Maybe, in flights of irresponsible responsibility, they’ll even manage to attain the paradoxical, Zenlike state of focused distraction.

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  Phil Taylor

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  • the brain is designed to change based on experience, a feature called neuroplasticity
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  Jabiz Raisdana
  • The neuroscientist Gary Small speculates that the human brain might be changing faster today than it has since the prehistoric discovery of tools.
  • mindful web-surfing, mindful Twittering. Maybe, in flights of irresponsible responsibility, they’ll even manage to attain the paradoxical, Zenlike state of focused distraction.
• 19 May 09
  

  Dean Shareski
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      Dean Shareski on 2009-05-19

      The brain research continues to baffle me. Some say nothing has changed, others say the brain is changing.
  • As we become more skilled at the 21st-century task Meyer calls “flitting,” the wiring of the brain will inevitably change to deal more efficiently with more information. The neuroscientist Gary Small speculates that the human brain might be changing faster today than it has since the prehistoric discovery of tools. Research suggests we’re already picking up new skills: better peripheral vision, the ability to sift information rapidly

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  Dean Shareski on 2009-05-19
  The brain research continues to baffle me. Some say nothing has changed, others say the brain is changing.

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