Multitasking

Training does not improve the ability to 1. In 2009 Eyal Ophir, and then at Stanford University, and his colleagues discovered that multitasking on the Internet paradoxically makes users less effective at 2 from one task to another. They are less able to 3 their attention and are too vulnerable to distractions. Consequently, even members of the "digital native" generation are unlikely to develop the cognitive 4 needed to divide their time between various tasks or to instantly jump from one activity to another. In other words, digital multitasking does little more than produce a dangerous illusion of 5.