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The brain is fundamentally built to unitask.

Clifford Nass, professor of communication, Stanford University, quoted in Driven to Distraction: At 60 M.P.H., Office Work Is High Risk

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We can no longer keep up with our own creations, and so we are constructing an apparatus to structure what we think, in the same manner that we first used writing on paper to extend our memory. Now we are offloading other mental functions.

Kevin Kelly, The Most Powerful Force in the World

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How Does Our Language Shape the Way We Think?

Lera Boroditsky: “For a long time, the idea that language might shape thought was considered at best untestable and more often simply wrong. Research in my labs at Stanford University and at MIT has helped reopen this question. We have collected data around the world: from China, Greece, Chile, Indonesia, Russia, and Aboriginal Australia. What we have learned is that people who speak different languages do indeed think differently and that even flukes of grammar can profoundly affect how we see the world.”