HP: This is Your Brain on Email

I have used a Blackberry for about three years now, and have noticed that I glance at the messages far too often, it has started to gain some of crackberry label given it, at least for me. Its convenient, yes, but also addicting. I notice it too being used by many more people in the halls these days. So its a good idea to understand what this continual connectivity means to us. Then I saw an article in CIO Insight, about research work at HP: "...a study on "info-mania" that suggests that too-frequent checking of e-mail and voice mail can lower your IQ up to ten points—which, for those keeping score, is a greater drop than researchers found in studying the effects of smoking marijuana ..."

Here is the HP page that introduces the study: ...HP calls for more appropriate use of “always-on” technology to improve productivity..., and their full HP Guide to Avoiding Info-Mania. The CIO Insight article also contains some reasonable criticisms of the study.

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Paul Kedrosky agrees: Focus is the new Black.