{"id":1077,"date":"2005-02-21T00:00:46","date_gmt":"2005-02-21T00:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1077"},"modified":"2005-02-21T00:00:46","modified_gmt":"2005-02-21T00:00:46","slug":"the_evils_of_mu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1077","title":{"rendered":"The Evils of Multitasking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ellen Ullman, author of the excellent, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/NASApp\/store\/IndexJsp;jsessionid=4E42F4269596741F5D6CA43B0AB70909.t6?s=showproduct&#038;isbn=1400032350\">the Bug<\/a> on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/02\/19\/opinion\/19ullman.html?ex=1266555600&#038;en=71e85314a5b778d8&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland\">Evils of Multitasking<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Not that Microsoft is the only culprit; distraction is built into the fabric of today&#8217;s electronic world. Icons on the PC toolbar flash; ads on Web pages shimmer and dazzle; software companies send e-mail messages to say your software is out of date; word processors interrupt to correct your spelling; Web pages refuse to show themselves until you update a plug-in; lights on laptops blink at you every time the hard drive whirs into motion (which, I&#8217;m here to tell you, happens a lot more often than you would ever care to know). The screens of TV cable news programs make three-ring circuses seem calm. You can&#8217;t even enjoy the 10th rerun of your favorite &#8220;Law and Order&#8221; episode without a glittering promo fluttering at the corner of the screen.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ellen Ullman, author of the excellent, the Bug on the Evils of Multitasking: Not that Microsoft is the only culprit; distraction is built into the fabric of today&#8217;s electronic world. Icons on the PC toolbar flash; ads on Web pages shimmer and dazzle; software companies send e-mail messages to say your software is out of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}