New technologies and social media are training up the next generation of superbrains, but are young people emotionally all there? John Naish is paying close attention. Link to read his article Here come the supertaskers in The New Statesman
Supertaskers constitute only 2.5 per cent of the population, Watson believes. But even that level is surprisingly high. “According to cognitive theory, these individuals ought not to exist,” he says in a paper soon to be published by the Psychonomic Bulletin and Review. Further research into supertaskers may reveal how the multitasking regions of their brains are different, due to some inherited variation. Watson predicts that employers in high-performance professions will want to screen for genetic markers of supertasking ability. Generation Whatever’s multi-mediated brains may be the key to our ever-faster future.
Source: The New Statesman