Your Brain on Computers - Studying the Brain Off the Grid, Professors Find Clarity -- Matt Richtel

A group of brain scientists take a rafting trip in Utah out of touch of cell phone rambling about attention, multitasking, and the impacts of disconnecting on cognitive behavior. And it’s interspersed with snippets of commentary about research on attention, etc. But no real case is put together, and the author, Matt Richtel has cherry picked the research, never mentioning research that counters the subtext. Richtel has written other pieces advancing the same case, in which he skips over contradictory evidence, as I reported in Do ‘Supertaskers’ Mean We Are Adapting To A Multiphrenic World?

Richtel seems the NY Times leading critic of being wired and the evils of a multiphrenic world: he is fighting the war on flow.