Monday, February 14, 2005

Rise of the Idiots

Not a Nathan Barley reference, though I hope you managed to catch the latest Chris Morris co-penned comedy on Friday night, but relevant nevertheless to this article from December 20th's Business Week by Michelle Conlin in which she reports findings that gadgets such as Blackberries, PDAs and other supposed multitasking tools can lower efficiency, increase error rates, reduce attention spans, and lead to raised stress levels, increasing the time it takes to do the most simple tasks by 50 percent or more.

The same issue contains this advice for investors from Robert Barker: Stay clear from the IPO of Herbalife, a direct-sales marketer of dietary supplements whose founder died in May 2000 following a four-day alcoholic binge.

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