To do two things at once is to do neither.*

The Autumn of the Multitaskers: "The rise of personalized technology was supposed to give us time and freedom. Instead, argues Walter Kirn, it has imprisoned us. With self-deprecating wit, Kirn takes us along on a bruising ride through multitasking hell, and explains why 'parallel processing' threatens both the brain and the GNP."

Finalist, essays, American Society of Magazine Editors' Best American Magazine Writing 2008. (Walter Kirn, The Atlantic)

*--Publilius Syrus, Roman slave, first century B.C.