[extropy-chat] no electronics at Singularity Summit???

[Damien Sullivan]

On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 05:09:28AM +0100, Russell Wallace wrote:

>    Oh, then hands-free cell phones aren't particularly low-hanging fruit;
>    it'd be better to start off persuading the world's taxi drivers to
>    refrain from holding conversations, not just for a minute on occasion
>    but for the entire duration of every trip :)

Quite possibly.

But I wasn't advocating banning the use of cell phones in cars; just
saying that multitasking often has measurable penalties, and if someone
says it doesn't affect them at all I'm inclined to be skeptical, people
not being great judges of their own competence.

-xx- Damien X-)