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Thursday’s essay, “The effects of technology: What we know for sure,” is an essay that focuses on how technology affects us — especially our use of the BlackBerry. Yes, it was stimulated by President Barack Obama’s use, but the findings (what we know for sure) come from researchers and scientists. Knowing the effects technology can have is just the first step in doing something about it (if you want to) — and that is what Thursday’s essay is all about.

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Thursday's And Then Some Essay preview
The effects of technology: What we know for sure
by Richard L. Weaver II

Excerpt:
Disruptions or interruptions plus the problems created by multi-tasking are two issues about which we know for sure. A third issue is creativity. Creativity requires that the brain brings together unrelated facts and thoughts, and this often occurs during mental downtime even daydreaming — when problems are not commanding conscious attention. A BlackBerry commands continuous conscious attention (that, along with other technologies). In a study conducted by Teresa Amabile of Harvard Business School, she found, in Begley’s words, “that fragmentation of attention . . . impeded creativity” (p. 38).

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