e-mail and telephone interruptions lowers our IQ
some recent studies runned in the UK by HP have a surprising result: seems that using the Internet reduces our intelligence:
Based on a series of tests carried out by the University of London Institute of Psychiatry's Dr Glenn Wilson, an average worker's functioning IQ falls ten points when distracted by ringing telephones and incoming emails. This effective IQ drop is more than double the effect of smoking marijuana, and greater than the impact of missing an entire night of sleep.
It's a disease with a name: Info-mania, and has sort-of-a cure with corporate rules. The brain-damage that in the older generations used to be caused by alcohol will probably get caused by computer usage.
