On Monday, I woke up to a day off. I sat on the couch, opened a word document and then tried to reply to an email while watching TV, playing minesweeper, chatting on IM, text messaging, talking on the phone and thinking about the real life things that I really should have been doing: laundry, cleaning, dishes, grocery shopping, cooking, looking for jobs, writing a song, practicing, and reading a book.
I realized at some point that in the flurry of whatchamahoozy, I was not doing anything.
Oddly this is what my days at work look like if you substitute office wage slave tasks with all of the things listed above. It's not clear to me that I am getting any more accomplished there than I was at home.
This is why computers will take over the world. They are, increasingly designed to do things in parallel and run tasks in the foreground and the background.
Am I struggling to reshape my brain and behavior to keep up with the technologies that were supposed to take the struggle out of my life? IThe Luddites would assure me that this happens a lot. Then again, perhaps they were only designed to increase my productivity leaving my struggle intact.
Maybe I should focus on partitioning my brain:
Work / Other
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Was humming the theme song to The Six Million Dollar Man after reading your title. (Only after I tried and failed to produce that weird noise that signifies that bionics are in use). However, partitioning your brain, and computers taking over the world - more along the lines of The Terminator and Universal Soldier or even Wargames. I'm just sayin' is all.
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