Further research could help create clever technology, like sensors or smart software that workers could instruct with their preferences and priorities to serve as a high-tech "time nanny" to ease the modern multitasker's plight.
But just as we are working toward a green earth, so we can find ways to create what I like to call "planet focus". What's needed is a renaissance of attention — a revaluing and cultivating of the art of attention, to help us achieve depth of thought and relations in this complex, high-tech time.
But we don't need a high-tech time machine or sci-fi wormhole to do so.
Still, these are high-tech times.
Marcin Jakubowski, the owner of a small farm in northwestern Missouri, is an agrarian romantic for high-tech times.
In these high-tech times, scanners and photocopiers aren't just dumb machines sitting in the corner of the office.
The executive branch will take its appeal to the Washington, D.C., circuit court, whose judges have previously shown a willingness to think creatively about our high-tech times.
The idea is, if you don't understand something, you give your power away and that's a dangerous thing in these high-tech times.
This fall, only a few dozen women got behind the… Marcin Jakubowski, the owner of a small farm in northwestern Missouri, is an agrarian romantic for high-tech times.
A decade later, Gifford Pinchot asserted that hierarchical organizations "based on dominance and submission" would soon be replaced by communities that are more appropriate to our high-tech times and postmodern selves.
It also shows that even in such high-tech times, some decidedly low-tech answers are still difficult to beat.
