[extropy-chat] multitasking (was no electronics at Singularity Summit???)

[Damien Sullivan]

On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 07:18:59AM +0200, Amara Graps wrote:
> Russell Wallace russell.wallace at gmail.com :
> >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 :)
> 
> Taxi drivers talking during the entire duration of the trip are not the
> lowest-hanging fruit of the multitasking taxi drivers either (at least
> they look at the road occasionally), instead we have the taxi-drivers

Come to think of it, how often do drivers have real conversations, vs.
talking at the customer?  Ranting about the state of the world may be a
low-attention automated task. :)

-xx- Damien X-)