You have to be amused to read in today's New York Times about how many technology companies are becoming victims of their own making. It's all about information overload. How many times over the years have we heard how technology has improved productivity for the general workforce? (If not their pay packets.) Now, apparently, with the ever increasing onslaught of cellphone calls and e-mail and instant messages, attention spans are suffering and the great god, productivity is starting to suffer. It's a common complaint. And now the companies that helped create the flood are trying to do something about it. Companies like Intel and Microsoft are introducing "Quiet" periods, by encouraging people to use applications that shut themselves out of their "In-Box" for fifteen minutes. But guess what, if that starts to fry your brain and you have to get your fix, just click on "escape" and your e-mail pops back up. And that's just e-mail, what the hell to do about Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, LinkedIn and all the other distractions out there is beyond me. Gotta go now, haven't checked e-mail for at least five minutes.
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And I haven't Googled myself for fifteen minutes!
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