From Slide Rules to Cyberspace

[dm319]

(06-09-2024 04:26 PM)KF6GPE Wrote:  WiFi.

Yes, this exactly. My experience was that I was easily distracted with silly things. Often little things the wifi connecting and disconnecting, were enough to change the context in my head that I could lose the thread of a talk. And this was with a very stripped-down linux machine. So much worse if you're using Windows, and it has logged you into Teams and is flashing up incoming mail into your Outlook. Or you've opened your web browser and your telegram messages start flashing up. And then you get notified for updates...

My wife is a lecturer. She recently repeated a group session with one difference - instead of the handouts printed out, they had to download them. She found the group far less engaged and could see that many were checking social media.