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The cover story from last week's Time magazine:

The Multitasking Generation
They're e-mailing, IMing and downloading while writing the history essay. What is all that digital juggling doing to kids' brains and their family life?
By CLAUDIA WALLIS

along with a related story:
A Dad's Encounter with The Vortex of Facebook
By MICHAEL DUFFY

Also, here is Steven Levy in Newsweek, writing about this talk by former Microsoft & Apple exec Linda Stone at the O'Reilly Emerging Technologies Conference:
In her talk , Stone was careful to acknowledge the benefits of perpetual contact. But her message is that the balance has tilted way too far toward distraction, creating a sense of constant crisis. "We're not ever in a place where we can make a commitment to anything," she explained to me when I called her a few days later. "Constantly being accessible makes you inaccessible."