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What are Howard Rheingold’s views on multitasking?

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In an essay that Howard Rheingold wrote in 2018 for the Encyclopédia Britannica Anniversary Edition: 250 Years of Excellence, he expressed impatience with the binaries driving discussions of multitasking: “We are in charge of the information we pay attention to, but if we don’t actively construct, tune, and manage our own filters, the raw flow of info, misinfo, and disinfo around us will take over.”