From: Andrew Clough (aclough@mit.edu)
Date: Wed May 08 2002 - 12:46:17 MDT
At 05:12 PM 5/8/2002 +0930, you wrote:
>We don't even do multitasking well. What is the cost for a human to switch
>from one task to another, especially when there is a lot of context? Huge!
>When you are in the middle of a complex cognitive task, how happy are you to
>stop where you are, do something else for a while, then come back to the
>task? If you have to, how much time do you lose in trying to reform the
>context of the task, ie: trying to remember what the hell you were doing?
>
....
>Emlyn
>Now all the sci fi writers/buffs are going to tell me eight stories which
>explore this idea but do it better, including at least three which are older
>than I am.
How right you are! :)
The first that comes to mind here is The Peace War by Vinge, where in a
chess game, one player saves his mental state, has a conversation, and then
goes right back to his previous train of thought.
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