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...obsessive and addicted multitasker and gadget user," Klein cheerily concedes. A typical moment at her office finds Klein reviewing a screenplay by phone with its writers and jotting notes while glancing at an incoming e-mail on her BlackBerry, motioning signals to her assistant and firing off an instant message to a studio exec. "Here's how bad it is," she confesses. "When I'm flying, right before the plane lands, before the seat-belt sign goes on, I get the BlackBerry out and put it in front of me in the seat-back compartment. That way I can turn...
...THAT SOUNDS EASY, BUT THEY FEEL LIKE A NECESSITY. Feels is the operative word. That's the trap. You set it up that you have to instant message, you have to e-mail and keep your cell phone on endlessly. I'm not saying don't do those things. Properly used, they are wonderful. Improperly used, they are destructive. So I think it's a matter of our learning how to use our technology properly, instead of letting...
...horror of 9/11, when millions watched the second plane hit the World Trade Center on live TV, a mine collapse is horrifying for the opposite reason: we see nothing and hear nothing. A group of men is either alive or dead and?in this age of GPS locators, instant messaging and Google Earth?thousands of feet of antediluvian rock stand between us and knowing their fate...
...used to getting instant information, if not instant understanding, these days: we get mid-surgery updates on Ariel Sharon, we track hurricanes in real time by computer. But after the explosion at Sago, we knew little more than we would have had it occurred 100 years ago. The machinery of electronic media could only fill the airtime in useless agitation, finally exploding in a burst of false "Miracle!" reports...
...enterprise is a U.S. musician named Don Campbell, who is not a scientist and had nothing to do with the original research, but who quickly trademarked the term "Mozart effect," and has written two best-selling books on the subject and compiled more than a dozen CDs. "In an instant, music can uplift our soul. It awakens within us the spirit of prayer, compassion and love," he writes. "It clears our minds and has been known to make us smarter." Rauscher is both bemused and sometimes amused by such rank commercialization. "At least somebody managed to make money...