Email is huge distraction: new research

October 15, 2008 | article by Ken Thompson in Think Differently (22)

A study at Loughborough University, UK, found that it takes an average of 64 seconds to recover your train of thought after interruption by email, so people who check their email every five minutes waste 8.5 hours a week figuring out what they were doing moments before.

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Another study by ClearContext, an email management tools vendor found that 56% of users surveyed spent more than two hours a day in their inbox.

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Could cell phones destroy civilisation

July 20, 2006 | article by Ken Thompson in Book Reviews (37)

"Cell", the new novel by horror writer Stephen King, paints an all too plausible scenario where our addiction to cell phones enables a malicious virus to be pulsed to every phone in the world turning all who take the call into a flock of murderously mad zombies.

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